HC Deb 08 May 1985 vol 78 c457W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1) whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for 1973 and each of the past five years the target, intervention and threshold prices for rice, the amount of rice produced, imported and exported, and the cost to the European Economic Community of budget support to the production of rice;

(2) whether he will published a table in the Official Report showing for 1973 and each of the past five years the target, reference and intervention prices for the different cereals, the amount of the surpluses produced, and the cost to the European Economic Community budget of the disposal of those surpluses.

Mr. MacGregor

The information requested for the most recent years can be obtained from the Commission's publication "The Agricultural Situation in the Community" report 1984; similar information for the earlier years is contained in previous reports. Copies of these are available in the Library of the House.

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