§ Mr. Morganasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is his estimate of the approximate percentage increase in real agricultural incomes in the United Kingdom in 1981 if the package of European Economic Community farm prices and related measures put forward for 1981–82 by the Commission on 18 February were to be implemented in full.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithI regret that I cannot reply in the form requested. However, it is estimated that if the Commission's proposals on prices and the green pound were adopted they would reduce our producers' returns in a full year possibly to some £5 million below the level that might otherwise obtain; this takes account only of those cost changes—that is on feed, seed and livestock—likely to arise directly from these proposals.