§ Dr. David ClarkTo ask the Minister of Agriculture. Fisheries and Food, further to his reply to the hon. Member for South Shields of 22 June,Official Report, column 251, if he will list the organisations invited to attend meetings to discuss the European Community price proposals in 1988, but which declined to do so; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. MacGregor[holding answer 3 July 1989]: Each year a wide range of bodies and individuals submit representations on the Commission's price fixing proposals. These are made not only at meetings, which was the subject of the hon. Member's earlier question, but in writing. Organisations which choose not to attend meetings are on occasions among those who write, but I do not think it would be appropriate to list them.