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Mr. Ralph Howell
asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will state the average ex-farm selling price of wheat in the United Kingdom for each of the years 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1986 and also at constant prices, showing the 1979 price as 100.
Mr. Gummer
The information is as follows:
| Ex-farm price of home-grown wheat1 (£ per tonne) | Price index in real terms2 (1979 = 100) | |
| 1979 | 95·92 | 100·0 |
| 1980 | 99·30 | 86·4 |
| 1981 | 108·92 | 85·0 |
| 1982 | 113·74 | 82·3 |
| 1983 | 124·80 | 86·1 |
| 1984 | 114·58 | 75·9 |
| 1985 | 112·23 | 70·3 |
| 1986 | 3 112·18 | 67·4 |
| 1 Weighted average price at first point of sale. (Source: Annual Review of Agriculture). | ||
| 2 Deflated by price deflator of GDP at market prices. | ||
| 3 Forecast. | ||