HC Deb 23 July 2004 vol 424 c754W
Mr. Wiggin

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what research her Department has commissioned on the effects of the Common Agricultural Policy on non-European Union trade, with particular reference to less-developed countries. [184046]

Mr. Mike O'Brien

The DTI has not commissioned its own research into the effects of the Common Agricultural Policy on non-European Union trade. However, our view, based on the ample research on others such as the World Bank and the OECD, is clearly set out in the recent White Paper on Trade and Investment and in the Economics Paper which accompanied it.