§ Mr. Spearingasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will tabulate in the Official Report the amounts, or his estimates, of the quantity and gross cost of the major commodities received by the United Kingdom Intervention Board in the year 1981.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithThe provisional tonnage and gross cost of the major commodities purchased into intervention in 1981 was:
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Commodity Tonnes Gross Cost £
Barley 501,688 53,456,504 Beef 14,730 23,111,165
Commodity Tonnes Gross Cost £
Breadmaking Wheat 37,265 4,443,981 Butter 602 1,154,849 Feed Wheat 5,689 609,808 Skimmed Milk Powder 27,792 22,773,001