Food Aid

HC Deb 18 December 1980 vol 996 c240W

Mr. Mark Hughes

asked the Lord Privy Seal what quantity of food, by individual product, the Community has given as food aid in each year since 1973.

Mr. Neil Marten

Community food aid programmes since 1973 have been as follows:

Year	Cereals	Dried skimmed milk	Tonnes butter oil
1973	1,161,000	49,450	22,000
1974	1,287,000	55,000	45,000
1975	1,287,000	55,000	45,000
1976	1,287,000	150,000	45,000
1977	1,287,000	105,000	45,000
1978	1,287,000	150,000	45,000
1979	1,287,000	150,000	45,000
1980	1,287,000	150,000	45,000

Notes

1. These figures do not include very small quantities of sugar and other products allocated in special circumstances.

2. The figures for cereals food aid include food provided bilaterally by member States as "national actions". The parallel 1981 cereals figure will be 1,650,000 tonnes.