§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what EEC assistance, in the form of cheap intervention sugar for feeding bees in winter, the bee industry has received for each of the last 10 years.
§ Mr. Donald ThompsonThere has been no EC assistance in the United Kingdom in the form of cheap intervention sugar for feeding bees in winter, but over the374W last 10 years the amounts shown have been paid as a denaturing premium for white sugar for feeding to bees, and as an aid to beekeepers associations for the purchase of feeding sugar or for improvement programmes.
Year Denaturing premium Aid to beekeepers associations £ £ 1979 5,670 — 1980 36,817 — 1981 — 98,284 1982 — 81,912 1983 — 88,806 1984 to 1988 — —