HC Deb 31 January 1994 vol 236 cc559-60W
Sir Teddy Taylor

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what has been the total sum expended by member states and by the EC itself on the storage and disposal of food surpluses in the most recent annual period for which figures are available; and if she will publish a table showing the relevant expenditure of the EC and by member states in each of the previous five years.

Mr. Jack

The guarantee section of the European guidance and guarantee fund—EAGGF—provides funding to member states for the costs of intervention storage, export refunds, and other disposal measures for products subject to the CAP. Information on expenditure on these measures for 1992 and for the previous five years can be obtained from the annual financial reports of the EAGGF guarantee section, copies of which have been deposited in the Library of the House of Commons. Annex 7 of these reports provides details of expenditure on intervention

Search of persons by IC Division 1 January to 31 December 1993
Collection IC1 IC2 IC3 IC4 IC5 IC6 Total
Belfast 337 2 5 1 3 348
Birmingham 328 10 35 29 5 407
Dover 1,054 45 71 42 9 7 1,228
East Anglia 1,833 99 271 77 13 13 2,306
East Midlands 186 11 7 204
Edinburgh 186 2 5 1 194
Glasgow 256 8 7 5 7 3 286
Leeds 335 6 15 4 1 361
Liverpool 85 5 22 3 9 1 125
London Airports 6,200 2,034 8,243 2,238 493 383 19,591
London Port 370 24 49 21 6 8 478

storage, and withdrawals and similar operations, and annex 5 on export refunds. The breakdown of expenditure by member state for these measures can be derived from annex 2 of these reports.

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