HC Deb 28 July 1977 vol 936 cc547-51W
Mr. Watkinson

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what are, by name, those food imports for which the United Kingdom paid more than £50 million in 1976, 1975, 1974 and 1970.

Mr. Bishop

The information is as follows:

1976

  • Live animals
  • Beef
  • Mutton and lamb
  • Offal
  • Preserved meat and meat preparations
  • Bacon and ham
  • Butter
  • Cheese and curd
  • Fish
  • Wheat
  • Maize
  • Oranges
  • Bananas
  • Apples
  • Prepared and preserved fruit and nuts
  • Potatoes
  • 548
  • Tomatoes
  • Other fresh vegetables
  • Other preserved and prepared vegetables
  • Sugar
  • Coffee
  • Cocoa
  • Tea
  • Animal feedingstuffs
  • Lard and other rendered pig fat: rendered poultry fat

1975

  • Live animals
  • Beef
  • Mutton and lamb
  • Bacon and ham
  • Prepared and preserved meat
  • Butter
  • Cheese and curd
  • Fish
  • Wheat
  • Maize
  • Apples
  • Preserved fruit and fruit preparations
  • Fresh vegetables
  • Preserved vegetables
  • Sugar
  • Coffee
  • Cocoa
  • Tea
  • Animal feedingstuffs
  • Lard and other rendered pig fat: rendered poultry fat

1974

  • Live animals
  • Beef
  • Mutton and lamb
  • Bacon and ham
  • Preserved meat and meat preparations
  • Butter
  • Cheese and curd
  • Fish
  • Wheat
  • Maize
  • Apples
  • Preserved fruit and fruit preparations
  • Preserved vegetables
  • Sugar
  • Coffee
  • Cocoa
  • Tea
  • Animal feedingstuffs
  • Lard and other rendered pig fat: rendered poultry fat

1970

  • Live animals
  • Beef
  • Mutton and lamb
  • Bacon and ham
  • Preserved meat and meat preparations
  • Butter
  • Wheat
  • Maize
  • Preserved fruit and fruit preparations
  • Sugar
  • Tea
  • Animal feedingstuffs

Mr. Watkinson

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for which food imports the United Kingdom paid more than £50 millions in 1976; what were the principal countries from which they came; and from which countries foods were similarly imported in 1970.

Product 1976 1970
Live Animals Irish Republic Irish Republic
Beef Irish Republic Irish Republic
France Australia
Denmark
Germany
Botswana
Mutton and Lamb New Zealand New Zealand
Edible Offals USA New Zealand
New Zealand USA
Australia Australia
Bacon and Ham Denmark Denmark
Netherlands Poland
Poland Irish Republic
Irish Republic
Preserved Meat and Meat Preparations Denmark Denmark
Netherlands Netherlands
Argentine Argentine
Brazil Yugoslavia
Poland
Butter Netherlands New Zealand
Denmark Denmark
New Zealand Australia
Irish Republic Irish Republic
Germany Netherlands
France
Cheese and Curd Irish Republic New Zealand
New Zealand Irish Republic
Netherlands
Denmark
France
Fish Norway Norway
Denmark Denmark
Netherlands
Canned Fish South Africa Japan
Japan
Wheat Canada Canada
France Australia
Germany USA
Denmark France
USA USSR
Maize USA USA
France France
South Africa South Africa
Argentine
Oranges Spain Israel
Israel Spain
South Africa South Africa
Bananas Dominica Jamaica
Jamaica Dominica
Apples France Australia
South Africa South Africa
France
Fruit and Nuts (prepared and preserved) South Africa South Africa
Spain Australia
Australia
Potatoes Netherlands Cyprus
Cyprus
Egypt
Canary Islands
Tomatoes Canary Islands Netherlands
Netherlands Canary Islands
Spain Spain
Other Fresh Vegetables Netherlands Netherlands
Spain Spain

Mr. Bishop

The information is as follows:

Product 1976 1970
Other prepared and preserved vegetables USA Italy
Italy Portugal
Canada
Spain
Sugar Mauritius Mauritius
Guyana Australia
Jamaica Jamaica
Australia Guyana
Fiji Trinidad
Cuba Fiji
Swaziland Barbados
Denmark Swaziland
Brazil
Trinidad
Germany
Mozambique
Coffee Brazil Uganda
Uganda Brazil
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Cocoa Nigeria Nigeria
Ghana Ghana
Tea India India
Kenya Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Kenya
Mozambique
Malawi
Animal Feedingstuffs India India
Netherlands Nigeria
Animal Oil Cake Senegal Canada
Animal Meat Meal and Fish Meal Denmark South Africa
Norway Denmark
Norway
Lard Netherlands USA
Belgium/Luxembourg
Germany
USA
Italy
France

SourceUK Overseas Trade Statistics.

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