asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what sums were paid by the United Kingdom Board for intervention in respect of all types of support for skimmed milk powder in the first six months of 1979; and what is the estimate for the whole year.

					1 January 1979 to 30 June1979	1979 (actual expenditure to 31 october 1979 and an estimate for the rest of the year)
					£	£
Skimmed milk powder expenditure—
1. Intervention purchases	…	…	…	…	4,218,190	7,100,000
2. Intervention incidental cost (storage and handling)					380,030	515,000
3. Aids for animal feed	…	…	…	…	20,871,218	52,200,000
4. Export refunds (includes other processed milk and cream not separately identified).					9,958,976	30,600,000

Items 1 and 2, funded by the United Kingdom Exchequer, do not take account of receipts from sales nor reimbursement by the European agricultural guidance and guarantee fund—EAGGF—of incidental costs at standard rates and of losses on sales. Items 3 and 4 are pre-funded by the EAGGF.