Milk

HC Deb 13 May 1988 vol 133 cc288-9W

Mr. Butler

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if, pursuant to the answer of 4 May,Official Report, column 478, he will standardise the producer price per kilogramme of milk in 1987 in pounds sterling.

Mr. Donald Thompson

The information requested is set out in the table.

Producer Price1 of Milk: 1987
	£ per kg6
Japan2 (manufacturing)	0.350
(fluid)	0.383
United States3	0.166
New Zealand4	70.060
European Community Member States5
United Kingdom	0.155
Germany	0.208
France	70.179
Italy	0.245
Netherlands	0.217
Belgium	70.182
Luxembourg	0.200
Ireland	70.158
Denmark	0.219
Greece	70.168
Notes:
1 Relates to milk of varying fat content.
2 Guaranteed price for manufacturing milk delivered to factory: average selling price for fluid milk.
3 Average price for all milk sold to plants.
4 Farmgate price of milk fat converted to milk equivalent; actual fat content.
5 Ex farm, actual fat content: net of co-responsibility levy. No data are readily available for Spain and Portugal.
6 Converted at average exchange rates for 1987.
7 Provisional.