Feeding Stuff Prices

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 November 1973.

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Photo of Mr Joseph Godber Mr Joseph Godber , Grantham 12:00, 22 November 1973

As prices fall, so we shall get a direct benefit. Although the levies are having impact in some cases, it is a marginal impact on cereal prices. With cereal prices it is the level of world prices that matters. There has been some reduction, I understand, and I believe that one feeding stuff manufacturer has reduced the price of some of his products by between £2 and £4·50 a ton.