§ Mr. HunterTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is his policy in respect of ensuring that future arrangements provide a sufficient supply of imported raw sugar to maintain the basic level of cane refining. [105491]
§ Ms QuinThe UK attaches considerable importance to the maintenance of adequate raw sugar supplies to the cane refining industry, which produces about half of our sugar. We therefore need to keep this consideration firmly in mind in forthcoming discussions about the EU sugar regime, and preferential access for cane sugar.