§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, further to his reply of 5 March, Official Report, c. 265–66, concerning EEC restitutions paid on exports of agricultural commodities to third countries, whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for each of the years in question the tonnage and so on exported and the average price per ton and so on where appropriate, dividing the items into main commodities, namely, butter, wheat, and so on.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithInformation on the volume and value of exports to third countries of the foods concerned is published by the Statistical Office of the European Communities in analytical tables of Foreign trade SITC/ CTCI, rev 2–1980 and earlier editions, copies of which are in the Library of the House. These figures may not, however, correspond to those on export restitutions given in my reply of 5 March because of differences in the timing of recording of trade flows and expenditure on restitutions and also because exports on which restitutions were not paid are included.