Milk: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the change in the average farmgate price for milk in each year since 1997. (264678)

The average milk farm-gate price since 1997 can be found in the following table:

	Farm-gate price (pence per litre)
1997	21.96
1998	19.26
1999	18.31
2000	16.92
2001	19.25
2002	17.05
2003	18.01
2004	18.45
2005	18.46
2006	17.94
2007	20.66
2008	25.91

Volume 490: debated on Monday 30 March 2009