Kampuchea (Hansard, 9 November 1979)

§ Mr. Michael Brown

asked the Lord Privy Seal what are the present criteria used by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office relating to United Kingdom recognition of Governments abroad; and in what respect the Pol Pot régime in Kampuchea satisfies these criteria.

TABLE 1
QUANTITIES IN COMMUNITY INTERVENTION STORES AND AIDED PRIVATE STORAGE
Commodity	Public storage	Aided private storage	Date
Cereals (including rice)	2.2 million tonnes	nil	25.10.79
Milk Products:
(a) Butter	311,610 tonnes	227,727 tonnes	25.10.79
(b) SMP	333,424 tonnes	nil
(c) Other	nil	61,232 tonnes
Beef^*	224,248 tonnes	65,317 tonnes	see note^*
Pigmeat†	nil	116,100 tonnes	see note†
Sugar‡	nil	nil	—
Wine	nil	10,586,000	31.8.79
		hectolitres
Olive Oil	51,592 tonnes^**	nil	31.10.79
Tobacco	27,074 tonnes	nil	8.10.79
Other	note available		—
Notes to Table 1
^*Public storage as reported on 30.9.79. Private storage stocks relate to the total tonnage contracted for in the two most recent schemes, the second of which was still in progress on 24.10.79.
†Private storage stocks contracted for under the most recent scheme, part of which has now been released.
‡Sugar eligible for storage refunds has not been included because refunds relate to an orderly marketing, rather than to an intervention buying and storage, measure.
^**Estimate.

TABLE 2
ESTIMATED DISPOSALS (a) ON WORLD MARKETS ON WHICH EAGGF GUARANTEE SECTION 1980 BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS WERE BASED
Cereals (including Rice)	16.8 million tonnes (b)
of which wheat	10.4 million tonnes
Milk Products
(i) Butter	371 thousand tonnes (b)
(ii) SMP	484 thousand tonnes (b)
Beef	250 thousand tonnes
Sugar	2.9 million tonnes
Notes to Table 2
(a) Disposals at prices below full EEC levels including disposals in the form of food aid.
(b) No direct comparisons should be made between these figures and those for export refunds in table 3 below since the coverage is not identical.

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