asked Her Majesty's Government:What is the cost of collection of the £50,000 received from the tax on sales of farmhouse cider in the year ended 31st March 1978; and how they justify this expense.

The cost of collection of the duty on sales of farmhouse cider cannot be isolated from the cost of administering the duties on alcoholic liquors as a whole. There is, however, no evidence to suggest that duty on farmhouse cider is more expensive to collect than that on cider produced by commercial producers.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether the United Kingdom is proposing to take part in the United Nations World Tourism Conference in 1980, and if so, whether they will encourage the Tourist Boards to finance independent research into the costs of tourism (both social and economic, both short and long term) as well as the benefits.

There is to be a conference in 1980 organised by the World Tourism Organisation, which is not a United Nations Specialised Agency. The United Kingdom is not a member of the organisation.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they agree that it would be desirable in the negotiations for an EEC "sheep-meat régime" that a two-tier system of prices should be considered with a relatively low price, and perhaps duty-free entry, for frozen or chilled meat, and a relatively high price for fresh meat.

The Government view is that, if it proves necessary to introduce a Community organisation for mutton and lamb, it should be a market-related measure and not one which distorted the market relationship between fresh and frozen lamb by forcing fresh lamb prices to a predetermined level with adverse effects on United Kingdom prices and consumption.House adjourned at a quarter before midnight.