§ Sir Teddy TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement on the expenditure within the EU on the subsidising of exports of surplus agricultural production for which figures are available in the last year; and how much of the total comes from(a) EU and (b) national funding. [79258]
§ Mr. Morley[holding answer 4 November 2002]: The European Union spent 3.4 billion euro on export refunds in its 2001 financial year. So far as we are aware, no member state uses national funds for this purpose.