Fruit and Vegetables (Hansard, 15 June 1998)

HC Deb 15 June 1998 vol 314 c29W 29W

§ Sir Teddy Taylor
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the total amounts of fruit and vegetables in respect of which £213,000,000 was spent in 1997 on the process of market withdrawal; and if he will publish information on the subsidies paid for the destruction of such fruit and vegetables. [45529]

§ Mr. Rooker
Although the expenditure figure for the 1997 budgetary year is available, the corresponding figure for the level of fruit and vegetable withdrawals is not. However, the total amount withdrawn during the 1996–97 marketing year was 1,786,406 tonnes.
The annual levels of withdrawal compensation are set out in Annex V of Council Regulation 2200/96 (Official Journal of the European Communities, L297, Volume 39 of 21 November 1996).