HC Deb 23 March 1982 vol 20 cc342-3W
Mr. Spearing

asked 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-Smith

The provisional tonnage and gross cost of the major commodities purchased into intervention in 1981 was:

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