§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, further to his written reply of 5 March, Official Report, column 437, concerning subsidies to the production of rape seed, whether he will publish in the Official Report the information showing the subsidy per tonne produced, the intervention price, the market price per tonne, the average amount of export restitutions per tonne in 1983 on exports to non-European Economic Community countries and the United Kingdom price of the products for which rape seed oil has become a substitute.
§ Mr. MacGregorThe subsidy on rape seed crushed in the United Kingdom in 1983 varied between £56.47 and £165.69 per tonne. the intervention price during that year varied between £260.64 per tonne and £285.04 per tonne but no rape seed was taken into intervention in that period. Information on market prices for rape seed were give in the "Annual Review of Agriculture 1984"—Cmnd. 9137—a copy of which is available in the Library of the House. No United Kingdom rape seed was exported with the aid of export refunds in 1983. Rape seed oil can substitute for a number of other oils, the most important of which is soya oil. According to the public ledger, the price of crude soya oil in the United Kingdom was £269 per tonne on 5 January 1983 and £472 per tonne on 21 December 1983.