Skip to main content

Intervention Stores

Volume 79: debated on Tuesday 21 May 1985

The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide a complete list of United Kingdom and European Community agricultural produce in public intervention and assisted private storage in England and their value at the latest available date.

[pursuant to his reply, 7 May 1985, c. 322]: Intervention stocks in England on 31 March, the latest date for which figures are available, were as follows, values calculated at the buying-in price current at that date:

CommodityTonnes£ million
Beef32,82479·75
Breadmaking wheat81,07210·71
Barley626,00177·74
Feedwheat2,873,191356·79
Butter100,746194·40
Skimmed Milk Powder29,94130·73
At the end of March, there was no butter or pigmeat in assisted private storage in England. The quantity of beef is not recorded and calculation would involve disproportionate cost.