HC Deb 14 December 1999 vol 341 cc179-80W
Sir Teddy Taylor

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what estimate he has made of the expenditure by the EU and by member states of that organisation in subsidising the export of food to nations outwith the EU in the most recent year for which such figures are available. [102630]

Ms Quin

In the 1998 budget year expenditure on export refunds under the Common Agricultural Policy to non-EU countries was 4.8 billion ecu. This was from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, there being no expenditure by individual member states on export refunds.