HC Deb 20 February 1986 vol 92 cc332-3W
Mr. Teddy Taylor

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how much butter, meat, wine and other consumer foods the European Community sold to the Soviet Union, and the rest of eastern Europe, respectively, during the last annual period for which figures are available; what were the comparable figures for each of the previous seven years, respectively; and what price the food and wine was sold at in the most recent annual period for which figures are available, expressed in ecu per tonne on the same basis as the answer given to the hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Mr. Terlezki) on 2 February 1984, Official Report, column 319.

Mr. Jopling

I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply given to him on 21 October 1985, at column 1. Revised figures for 1984, and provisional data for the period January-October 1985, are shown in the table:

Source: Eurostat.

* Provisional.

German Democratic Republic, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania.

Including raw sugar, converted to white sugar: 1 tonne raw sugar=0.92 tonnes white sugar.

.. less than 500 tonnes.

n/a=not available.

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