HC Deb 03 March 1977 vol 927 cc279-80W
Mr. Jay

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how much butter

EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM TO THE EEC
Quantity* (Tonnes) Value £ MCAs† £
Cereals:
Wheat … … … 21,939 2,076,934 1,022,253
Barley … … … 158,411 13,430,292 3,809,686
Maize … … … 43,360 3,225,245 90,345
Sugar … … … 15,468‡ 3,214,000 49,070
Beef/Veal … … … 97,674 104,628,000 14,348,811
Eggs … … … 11,629 8,351,000 171,952
Poultry meat … … … 5,090 4,042,000 52,119
Milk and milk products … … … 195,188 81,924,000 5,701,847
Pigmeat and pigmeat products … … … 14,936 10,232,997 613,691
*These figures may include some non-indigenous produce.
† These are charges actually collected during 1976. There is a delay of from six to eight weeks between export and collection of the levy.
‡ White sugar equivalents.

Mr. Spearing

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish in the Official Report a table for each of the principal foodstuffs im- has been sold from EEC stocks outside the EEC in the past six months; how much of this has been purchased directly or indirectly by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other Warsaw Pact countries; and at what price compared with the EEC price.

Mr. Bishop

I regret that this information is not available. The export refunds, however, published for the period from 17th September 1976 to the end of February 1977 were as set out below. The full EEC intervention price of butter during this period was 223.8 units of account per tonne.

Export Refunds for 82 per cent. Butter

Up to 4th February 1977–144.96 ua/100 kg.

From 5th February 1977–159.75 ua/100 kg.