§ Dr. Edmund Marshallasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what arrangements there are in the United Kingdom for the distribution for welfare purposes of food surpluses accumulated in the working of the common agricultural policy of the European Community.
§ Mr. Peter WalkerIntervention butter is supplied at reduced prices to non-profit making bodies including welfare organisations. Surplus fruit, vegetables and fish is available free to such organisations in times of glut when it would otherwise be disposed of for purposes other than human consumption.
§ Mr. Strawasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will insist upon a price freeze in money terms in the next negotiations upon those products which are subject to the common agricultural policy and which are in structural surplus.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithI am not prepared, several months in advance of the negotiations and before the Commission have made proposals, to define what our detailed negotiating objectives will be.