Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 November 1973.
Mr Joseph Godber
, Grantham
12:00,
22 November 1973
I think that the right hon. Gentleman is on a false point. In many of these cases the levy is suspended when the price rises above a certain level. Thus, high prices do not in the main mean a higher payment to the Community. We accepted certain undertakings in the Treaty of Accession for the payment of levies, but the levies are not necessarily increased by the level of world prices.