Mr. Wellsasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food which horticultural wholesale markets are being used for EEC monitoring purposes; what information he has about the numbers of public or municipal employees as opposed to traders and porters in each of these markets; and if this number of staff is tending to increase or decrease.
§ Mr. StrangMarketing information is collected for a number of EEC purposes and the designated markets in the United Kingdom are those in Birmingham, Liverpool, Glasgow, Belfast and London—principally Covent Garden. Detailed information on the numbers of employees at this markets is not readily available and would be for the market authority and the commercial firms concerned to provide.