§ Mr. Richard Shepherdasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the difference between the cost to United Kingdom consumers of buying foodstuffs at current prices and the cost to them of buying such foodstuffs at third country offer prices, as used in the computation of EEC levels.
§ Mr. Peter Walker[pursuant to his reply 1 July 1980, c. 456]: About £3 billion. But this overstates the real difference since it is unlikely that we would be able, or would in some cases necessarily choose, to purchase all our import requirements at the third country offer prices used in the computation of EEC import levies.