§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish in he Official Report the estimated disposals on world markets on which the European agricultural guidance and guarantee fund guarantee section of the 1985 budget appropriations is based, specifying the tonnage of the principal products and the corresponding outturn for 1984.
§ Mr. MacGregorThe 1985 European Community budget has not yet been adopted. Final statistics on exports of agricultural products from the Community are not yet available for 1984.
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for meat, dairy products and sugar (a) the ex-farm, ex-factory price, (b) the target price, (c) the intervention price and (d) the retail price in 1984 and at the latest available date, where possible on the same basis as the reply to the hon. Member for Great Grimsby on 25 June 1980, Official Report, columns 215–18.
§ Mr. MacGregorThe information requested on ex-farm, ex-factory prices and retail prices is in the following tables. Details of target and intervention prices are set out on pages 234–243 of "The Agricultural Situation in the European Community-1984 Report", a copy of which is in the Library of the House. The representative rate, at which institutional prices should be converted to sterling, remains at £1=1.61641 ecu.
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Table 1 Ex-farm ex-factory prices Price Commodity and Definition 1984 Week ended 9 February 1985 Beef Average market price, clean cattle, per live kg 96.5p 94.9p Lamb Average market price, certified fat sheep, per kg est dcw 175.8p 168.7p Pigmeat Average market price, clean Pigs, per kg dwt 108.4p 103.15p
Price Commodity and Definition 1984 Week ended 9 February 1985 Poultry Average wholesale price, broilers, per lb 47.3p 41.0p Butter Average first hand price, bulk butter, home-produced, per tonne £ 2,229 £2,270 Cheese Average first hand price, English Cheddar, creamery, white rindless, per tonne £1,782 £1,880 Sugar Refined, bulk, granulated, per tonne £419 £419
Table 2 Average Retail Prices Price (pence) Commodity and Definition 1984 11 December 1984 Beef Home-killed, chuck, per kg 371.0 377.4 Lamb Home-killed leg (with bone), per kg 368.4 371.7 Pork Home-killed leg (foot off), per kg 242.6 256.8 Poultry 3 1b frozen broilers, per lb 61.8 62.4 Butter Danish, per kg 219.3 229.6 Cheese Cheddar type, per kg 257.6 263.7 Sugar Granulated, per kg 47.6 47.1 Source: Employment Gazette