§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for each year since 1954 the amount of sugar from beet produced in the United Kingdom, together with the amount of sugar imported from the European Economic Community and the rest of the world and the corresponding figures for exports, all in terms of white sugar equivalent.
§ Mr. MacGregorThe information requested is as follows:
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'000 tonnes wse Year Sugar produced Sugar imported Sugar exported from EC rest of world to EC rest of world 1954 595.5 — — — — 1955 638.3 — — — — 1956 709.4 — — — — 1957 567.3 — — — — 1958 734.1 — — — — 1959 785.7 — — — — 1960 901.8 — — — — 1961 772.6 — — — — 1962 697.5 — — — — 1963 750.8 10.4 2,473.4 128.8 310.2 1964 943.4 7.7 2,235.0 150.5 300.8 1965 859.7 3.0 2,076.6 11.2 295.9 1966 861.2 1.4 2,148.0 25.6 281.8 1967 887.3 6.2 2,120.0 43.4 288.5 1968 897.6 53.5 1,941.9 17.9 191.3 1969 860.3 35.0 2,072.6 2.4 204.4 1970 960.7 107.6 1,936.8 5.5 190.7 1971 1,086.3 45.8 2,024.6 4.5 239.8 1972 886.5 43.8 2,061.6 7.7 300.5 1973 963.3 121.5 1,776.0 5.7 280.2 1974 568.2 800.0 1,532.7 5.5 385.5 1975 641.4 320.2 1,544.4 12.9 204.2 1976 695.3 387.3 1,562.0 4.6 212.6 1977 949.2 296.4 1,324.0 5.0 159.0 1978 1,022.5 206.0 1,165.3 5.0 81.0 1979 1,154.2 212.0 1,137.9 8.4 65.0 1980 1,105.8 140.1 1,149.1 7.5 89.3 1981 1,092.2 168.7 1,089.6 13.7 101.8 1982 1,418.2 176.6 835.4 9.3 359.1 Notes:
(1) The source for the production figures is MAFF statistics. The trade statistics pre-1973 are based on ones published by the ISO. Those post-1973 are from the Overseas Trade Accounts. As they were assembled for Community balance sugar sheet purposes, they relate to balance sheet years (October to September).
(2) United Kingdom trading statistics from and to the EC before 1963 are not readily available.