asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement about recent sales of wheat by the European Economic Community to the Soviet Union and the effect of such sales upon the feed price to the poultry industry.

So far in the current marketing year export certificates for 11·85 million tonnes of wheat have been issued by the European Community; there are no special arrangements for exports to the Soviet Union and it is not possible to say what proportion of these exports are destined for that country. The price of feedwheat in the United Kingdom is below the intervention price and the poultry industry is likely to be paying a little more for its supplies than at this time last year and appreciably less than it was paying in March 1983 and March 1984.