Food Subsidies

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prices and Consumer Protection – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 8 March 1976.

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Photo of Mr Norman Buchan Mr Norman Buchan , Renfrewshire West 12:00, 8 March 1976

Does my right hon. Friend agree that as a result of the weekend decision in Brussels there will be a sharp increase in prices not only of dairy produce, but of meat? In that situation, does she agree that, far from cutting food subsidies, she should use her strength to maintain them and, indeed, to increase them, especially in the interests of the lower income groups?