§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish a table showing the current or most recently available levels of export refund available for sales of food from the European Economic Community to the Soviet Union in terms of pence per pound in respect of foodstuffs like sugar, beef, flour and other items purchased retail by consumers, in pounds sterling per ton for items like wheat, barley and other items not normally purchased retail, and pence per litre for wine; and if he will publish a further table showing the approximate sale prices in the same measures and volumes that these levels of export refund would imply, in the same way as he did for European Economic Community sales of butter to the Soviet Union in his answer of 30 October 1980, Official Report, column 356, at a time when butter sales enjoyed the benefit of export refunds.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithI shall reply to my hon. Friend as soon as possible.
§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish the current level of European Economic Community subsidies that are available for the export of food and wine to the Soviet Union; and if he will also publish the comparable levels of subsidy that were available on the same date in each of the previous three years.
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§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithWhere available, the levels of export refunds currently applicable for European Community exports to the Soviet Union are given as follows with comparable information for the previous three years.
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Wheat 1979 45.42 £/tonne 1980 28.33 £/tonne 1981 43.68 £/tonne 1982 44.72 £/tonne Barley 1979 46.35 £/tonne 1980 34.86 £/tonne 1981 27.95 £/tonne 1982 28.64 £/tonne Flour 1979 61.59 £/tonne 1980 48.90 £/tonne 1981 no refund available for the Soviet Union 1982 59.99 £/tonne Malt 1979 56.73 £/tonne 1980 42.15 £/tonne 1981 31.31 £/tonne 1982 39.09 £/tonne Butter 1979 1,043.39 £/tonne 1980 1,119.77 £/tonne 1981 Nil 1982 Nil Butter Oil 1979 1,348.63 £/tonne 1980 1,455.32 £/tonne 1981 Nil 1982 Nil Skimmed Milk Powder 1979 422.00 £/tonne 1980 371.19 £/tonne 1981 247.46 £/tonne 1982 228.9 £/tonne Beef Export refunds vary enormously according to the category of animal, type of meat etc., and it is not possible therefore to give representative figures. Pigmeat 1979 8.62 pence/lb 1980 6.2 pence/lb 1981 9.3 pence/lb 1982 2.8 pence/lb Poultrymeat 1979 *†3.58 pence/lb
1980 *4.92 pence/lb 1981 *5.06 pence/lb 1982 *4.83 pence/lb Sugar 1979 136.35 £/tonne 1980 55.68 £/tonne 1981 levy of 34.27 £/tonne 1982 118.78 £/tonne Wine 1979 4 pence/litre 1980 6 pence/litre 1981 6 pence/litre 1982 7 pence/litre * Average of 83 per cent., 70 per cent, and 65 per cent, chicken and 80 per cent, and 73 per cent, turkeys.
‡ European third countries.