Tobacco Producers

HC Deb 18 June 1996 vol 279 cc432-3W

Sir Keith Speed

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the countries of the European Union in receipt of EU funds to subsidise their tobacco producers and the total such expenditure to each country for the most recent 12-month period. [33182]

Mr. Baldry

Details of expenditure on the tobacco regime by the Community, broken down by member state, are contained in annex 2 of the annual financial reports on the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, EAGGF, guarantee section, copies of which have been deposited in the Library of the House.

Provisional figures for 1995 are:

	Mecu	£ million1
Belgium	3.5	2.8
Germany	26.2	21.2
Greece	411.4	332.4

	Mecu	£ million1
Spain	125.7	101.6
France	81.2	65.6
Italy	331.6	267.9
Netherlands	0.1	0.1
Portugal	13.3	10.7
Total	993.0	802.4
1£1=1.23759 ecu. Figures may not add to totals shown because of rounding.