§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the total tonnage of foodstuffs of all kinds, collectively, in private or public intervention 199W in the European Economic Community; and what was the collective total around the same date in each of the previous 10 years, respectively.
§ Mr. Jopling[pursuant to his reply, 17 February 1986, c. 2]: The information requested is set out in the table below:
Year* Million tonnes 1975 † … … ¶ 5.1 1976 †║5.4 1977 †‡║3.6 1978 ║3.4 1979 ║7.4 1980 ‡║10.0 1981 ║7.6 1982 ║12.2 1983 ║14.0 1984 •9.8 1985 •9.3 * Generally end December each year.
† Excluding public intervention stocks of olive oil, information on which is not available.
‡ Excluding pigmeat in assisted private storage, information on which is not available.
║ Including feed wheat which cannot be separately identified in those years.
¶ Excluding butter and cheese in assisted private storage, information on which is not available.
• In addition stocks of wheat bought in at the intervention price for feed grain were 3.1 million tonnes in 1984 and 6.9 million tonnes in 1985 and a proportion of these was of milling quality.