Tobacco Production: European Union
Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Written answers and statements, 24 January 2007
Michael Penning (Hemel Hempstead, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what percentage of EU tobacco production is exported to non-EU nations.
Barry Gardiner (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Brent North, Labour)
The most recent figures (for 2005) show that some 53 per cent. of the 364,000 tonnes of raw tobacco produced in the European Union (EU) was exported to countries outside the EU.