§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what estimate he has received from the European Economic Community of the amount which is spent each week on the storage, export and destruction, respectively, of food and wine; and what additional sums, per week, are spent by member states on these areas of spending.
§ Mr. GummerThe 1986 Community budget provides for expenditure of 10,179 mecu (196 mecu per week) on public intervention storage, export refunds and withdrawals of fresh fruit and vegetables and fish. In some circumstances withdrawn produce finds no end use and may be assumed to be spoilt or wasted, although the relevant expenditure is not identified separately in the available statistics.
Details of related United Kingdom expenditure are contained in the supply estimates and appropriation accounts of the Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce. Equivalent information for other member states is not available.