§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how much European Economic Community surplus food and grain was shipped to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other Eastern bloc countries in each month of the last five years.
§ Mr. MacGregorPrior to 1984, data on Community trade for individual months are not readily available in the detail necessary to provide the information requested. Monthly figures are available for the first three months of 1984 and these are as follows:
products held in intervention in the United Kingdom and in the Community as a whole was deposited in the Library on 13 February. The cost to the United Kingdom taxpayer of the stocks of cereals currently held in intervention cannot be assessed because it depends on how long those stocks remain in store and at what prices they are sold.