asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what has been the annual cost of African, Caribbean and Pacific imports since 1974–75 to the British Sugar Corporation and to British taxpayers respectively.

There are no direct costs either to the British Sugar Corporation or to the United Kingdom Exchequer of imports into the United Kingdom of African, Caribbean and Pacific sugar, although the cost of the monetary compensatory amounts paid on this sugar falls on the Community budget to which the United Kingdom contributes its share. The annual values of the monetary

Quantity:'000 tonnes
Value: £ '000
			ACP		DOM		EEC (other)
			Quantity	Value	Quantity	Value	Quantity	Value
1975	…	…	1,188	290,710	—	—	105	20,185
1976	…	…	1,215	221,480	19	4,354	77	14,275
1977	…	…	1,243	244,286	85	19,490	106	21,038
1978	…	…	1,270	289,057	37	9,270	37	7,589
1979 (January to October)	…	…	934	208,869	20	4,980	0·3	85

The figures for the value of sugar exclude duties, levies, and so on, but include costs of insurance and freight and are not therefore balance of payments costs. I regret that balance of payments costs are not available for individual food commodities but only on an aggregate basis for all food, beverages and tobacco.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what has been the cost of monetary compensatory amounts paid to African Caribbean and Pacific countries annually since 1975.

Information on the value of monetary compensatory amounts paid toACP countries is not separately recorded. However, the values of monetary compensatory amounts paid on white and raw sugar imported into the United Kingdom from non-Community countries are as follows. Most of these MCAs can be attributed to imports from ACP countries under the sugar protocol to the Lome convention.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish in the Official Report the tonnage of raw sugar imports into the United Kingdom in each year from 1975 from (a) the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, (b) Dominions Outre Mer and (c) other EEC countries and the cost to the balance of payments of these.

The quantity and value of raw sugar imports into the United Kingdom from these three sources are published in the "Overseas Trade Statistics" of the United Kingdom and for the years requested are as follows:

1974–75	1975–76	1976–77
£	£	£
580	17,830,707	56,229,563
1977–78	1978–79	1979–80*
£	£	£
77,333,552	68,213,091	17,137,173
* 1 April to 31 October