§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will publish in theOfficial Report a table showing for 1970, 1979 and 1988, United Kingdom production of each of the principal common agricultural policy products, including bacon, rice and cotton, together with the quantities imported from and exported to (a) the European Economic Community and (b) the rest of the world; and if he will include the average 1988 price of the imports and exports in each case together with the common agriculture policy price.
§ Mr. CurryInformation on production and trade for the earlier years is shown in the "Annual Review of Agriculture" White Papers (the 1981 review, Cmnd 8132, provides averaged data for the years 1969–71 and the 1984 review, Cmnd 9137, covers 1979). Forecasts for 1988 were published in "Agriculture in the United Kingdom 1988", ISBN 011 242 8665. Production estimates for 1988 will be available in the 1989 edition (to be published early in the new year). Provisional data on overseas trade in 1988 is to be found in the December 1988 edition of the "Overseas Trade Statistics of the United Kingdom", ISBN 011 728 2642.
EC institutional prices, together with their sterling equivalents, are given each year in the note on the annual price fixing deposited in the Library of the House.