Common Agricultural Policy

HC Deb 11 July 1988 vol 137 cc25-6W

Mr. Teddy Taylor

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by what percentage the proposed expenditure on the common agricultural policy, excluding fisheries, in the 1989 preliminary draft budget exceeds the actual outturn of spending in this area in 1987.

Mr. MacGregor

Expenditure proposed for agriculture in the 1989 preliminary draft budget, excluding exceptional items, is 5 per cent. greater than the underlying level of expenditure for the calendar year 1987.

(mecu)	1987 underlying expenditure1	1989 PDB
Market support	27,482	228,235
Structural and other measures	895	1,547
	28,377	329,782 (+54)
1Budget provision only cover the first ten months, 23,845 mecu.
2Covers expenditure from 16.10.88 to 15.10.89.
3 In addition the 1989 PDB contains 640 mecu for depreciation of old stocks, 800 mecu for reimbursement of butter disposals in 1987–88, and a monetary reserve of 1,000 mecu.
4Percent.