§ Mr. Ashdownasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will indicate the average length of time from an application for removal from intervention stores and the carrying out of this request from (a) July 1986, (b) December 1986 and (c) the mean average for the year 1986.
§ Mr. GummerPurchasers of intervention commodities must take responsibility for the goods within the period specified in the regulations, but may choose to leave them in store at their own expense. Calculations of the average period before removal would entail checking the date of each discharge from store, numbering about 123,000 during the 1986 calendar year, and would involve disproportionate cost.