HC Deb 05 November 2002 vol 392 cc228-9W
Dr. Tonge

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs under the Common Agricultural Policy dairy regime, what overall annual level of payments has been made to dairy processing and exporting companies in the UK over the last 10 years, broken down by type of(a) subsidy, (b) company and (c) product. [76614]

Mr. Morley

The table details expenditure on a calendar year for each of the dairy processing schemes and the dairy product based export refund schemes administered by the Rural Payments Agency (and previously the Intervention Board) from 1993 to 2002 inclusive. These schemes are prescribed by European Community regulation, but participation in them by the industry is entirely discretionary. Beneficiaries under these schemes include: Creameries and traders (suppliers to the industry). Manufacturers of pastries, cakes, biscuits, ice-cream, casein/caseinates and concentrated butter for direct consumption.

Rural payments agency annual payments made to dairy processing and exporting companies in the UK over the last 10 years
Scheme 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Total
Butter for direct consumption 160 2,932 1,594 1,191 1,748 1,819 1,046 1,109 1,026 740 13,365
butter for manufacture 0 0 0 0 0 23,100 36,271 31,700 29,520 20,851 141,442
Butter for non-profit making organisations 5,613 4,471 4,349 2,303 2,893 2,405 1,586 1,008 1,115 746 26,489
Butter for manufacture 51,808 48,897 57,234 36,307 49,009 20,539 86 0 0 0 263,880
Intervention Butter purchases 0 0 0 6,987 36,612 18,586 16,677 15,467 4,646 18,986 117,961
Control of casein in cheese 0 0 0 -1 18 0 -13 0 0 0 4
Liquid skimmed milk for stockfeed 677 365 341 87 167 146 53 15 0 0 1,851
PSB-Private storage of butter 989 1,595 668 353 441 590 626 1,027 837 571 7,697
Casein and Caseinates 78 0 30 0 0 0 3,777 7,420 420 0 11,725
Skimmed milk powder for animal feed 6,789 5,613 5,603 2,865 3,530 2,431 2,584 2,043 941 853 33,252
Intervention Purchases 313 10,355 0 40,003 34,736 40,424 25,429 994 0 18,755 171,009
Skimmed milk Powder
Skimmed milk for Russia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 859 0 0 859
Skimmed milk powder-Export Refund 8,946 7,403 8,741 3,812 15,440 6,322 8,528 10,161 462 1,871 71,686
Whole Milk powder-Export Refunds 39,776 51,935 48,789 49,315 70,343 57,177 50,595 48,352 725 4,322 421,329
Condensed Milk-Export Refunds 47 20 18 14 11 9 7 7 3,551 476 4,160
Butter and butter Oil-Export Refunds 9,366 11,247 7,873 1,544 5,800 1,114 1,428 1,531 1,429 465 41,797
Cheese-Export Refunds 33,549 26,565 15,104 15,286 3,430 4,336 5,558 3,986 22,631 2 130,447
Other Dairy products-Export Refunds 20,244 20,055 18,932 12,478 7,778 5,281 2,805 1,134 6 28,228 116,941
Total 178,355 191,453 169,276 172,544 231,956 184,279 157,043 126,813 67,309 96,866 1,575,894