Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 November 1973.
Gavin Strang
, Edinburgh East
12:00,
22 November 1973
Will the Minister answer the question posed by my right hon. Friend the Member for Battersea, North (Mr. Jay) and admit that there is a levy on some barley imports and that if world prices fall, as the Minister suggests is happening, the common agricultural policy will prevent us from getting anything like the benefit we should out of that reduction?
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