§ Mr. Biffenasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the price levels originally suggested by the EEC Commission and finally agreed by the Council of Ministers in respect of the recent Common Market Agricultural Price Review.
§ Mr. BishopThe support prices proposed by the Commission were included in Volume I of EEC document R/3166/75 and are summarised in the table at pages 13 to 16 of that document. Prices agreed by the Council of Ministers78W at their meeting on 2nd–6th March were published in Press Notice No. 76 issued by my Department on 15th March. Prices of varieties of fruit and vegetables were too numerous for inclusion in the Press Notice but increases over 1975–76 prices averaged 4 per cent, for apples and pears and 8 per cent for other varieties. Further details of prices agreed in the milk sector were published in Trade Press Notice No. 14 issued by my Department on 16th March. Document R/3166/75, Press Notice No. 76 and Trade Press Notice No. 14 are available in the Library of the House.