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Mr. Geraint Howells
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what information he has on direct and indirect support to agriculture by the United States of America; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. David Hunt
Provisional estimates by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development are that total transfers to United States agriculture were some US $67 billion in 1989; and $46 billion of this was directly funded by taxpayers, the remainder by consumers.