HC Deb 26 February 1990 vol 168 cc66-7W
Mr. Teddy Taylor

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish a table showing the amount of special sales agreed by the European Economic Community over the most recent 12-month period for which figures are available; and if he will list the nations to which these food exports were sent and the average price of such sales in terms of pence per pound.

Mr. Curry

At any one time CAP arrangements provide for a number of sales schemes from intervention and from the open market. These tend to follow established patterns. However, the following sales to non-EC countries, agreed over the last 12 months, have distinguishing features:

Date Destination Commodity Quantity (t) Price (pence per pound)
December 1989 USSR Barley 1,620,000 3.7
January 1990 USSR Wheat 3,220,000 4.1
February 1990 Eastern Europe and USSR Rice 12,150 8.4

The table above does not include goods exported free of charge as part of either the Community's food aid programme or the package of measures recently agreed to assist countries in Eastern Europe.

1 The quantities destined for the USSR and Poland (which it is not possible separately to identify) benefited from an additional subsidy of 0.14 pence per pound.

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