§ Mr. Ralph HowellTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will show in table form, for each year since 1965–66, the total import duties and levies on foodstuffs as a whole, imported into the United Kingdom, and separately for the following categories:(a) cereals,(b) meat including livestock destined for consumption,(c) dairy products and (d) other items.
§ Mrs. Gillian ShephardI have been asked to reply.
I regret that the information is not available in the form requested and could not in any way be provided for the full period requested except at disproportionate costs.
The tables show the levy and duty for both foodstuffs and non-foodstuffs from the four most recent years in each case. Separate figures distinguishing between foodstuffs and non-foodstuffs are not available.
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Agricultural levies Established in calendar years: 1987 £000 1988 £000 1989 £000 1990 £000 Cereals 84,310 62,601 47,392 74,838 Meat (beef, veal and pigmeat) 6,065 6,019 5,458 1,806 Dairy products 17,218 21,883 28,458 11,156 Other 107,360 88,047 54,174 39,362 Total 214,953 178,550 135,482 127,162 Note: Amounts are made available to the Commission two months after the month in which they are established.
Import duties Financial years 1986–87 £000 1987–88 £000 1988–89 £000 1989–90 £000 1Cereals (Chapter 11—products of the milling industry) 222 256 302 232 Meat (Chapter 2—including edible offal but excluding livestock) 9,848 12,475 14,600 15,668 Dairy products (Chapter 4—including eggs, honey and other edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified) 2,991 3,011 2,898 2,668 Total 13,061 15,742 17,800 18,568 1 No import duty was collected on unprocessed cereal grains (Chapter 10) most of which are liable to levy only. Notes: Figures for livestock and other items of foodstuff are not available.
These figures are not directly comparable with those for levy. Import duty is summarised by tariff chapters only and these include items not subject to levy and exclude related foodstuffs in other tariff chapters.