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Sugar

Volume 884: debated on Friday 24 January 1975

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asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the future supply of sugar.

I have nothing to add to the reply given to the right hon. Member for Cambridgeshire (Mr. Pym) on 23rd January.—[Vol. 884, c. 421–22.]

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what percentage increase has taken place in the price of sugar since Great Britain joined the EEC.

Average ex-refinery price of granulated sugar in hundredweight paper sacks has increased by approximately 340 per cent. The average price for January 1973 was £82·49 per ton; the estimated equivalent for January 1975 is £280 per ton. There was a subsidy in force in January 1973 of approximately £15 a ton.