§ Mr. Shersbyasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what estimate he has made of the effect of the recent changes in the value of the green pound and changes in the method of calculating the monetary compensatory amounts on (a) the price of pigmeat imported into the United Kingdom and (b) swill pig farmers in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. Donald ThompsonThese changes will reduce the MCAs paid on imports into the United Kingdom and the charges on exports of pigmeat from the United Kingdom. Taken together with the helpful reductions agreed in other members states positive MCAs, this should help to make our industry more competitive and so help all pig farmers 237W in the United Kingdom. The precise benefit cannot be stated as this will depend, to a certain extent, on future movements in sterling.