§ Mr. Gouldasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what will be the total cost of the scheme to incorporate skimmed milk powder into animal foodstuffs; and what will be the cost to the United Kingdom, in particular.
§ Mr. Bishop, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, Vol. 910, c. 499], gave the following information:
On the basis of the Commission's estimate of the cost of its original proposal, revised to take account of the agreed reduction in the scope of the scheme and to take account of price adjustments, the cost of the scheme to the European Communities' 1976 budget could be about 170 million units of account. A proportion of this expenditure would be in respect of skimmed milk powder incorporated in the United Kingdom. Contributions are made to the Communities' expenditure as a whole and for 1976 the United Kingdom's contribution rate is 16.3 per cent.