Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 20 Rhagfyr 1973.
Mr Nigel Spearing
, Acton
12:00,
20 Rhagfyr 1973
Will the hon. Lady explain why she reverts to a percentage figure? Is she not aware that the Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry quoted the figure last Monday as being between £20 million and £40 million? Does the hon. Lady not agree that that is the effective increase in prices for next year, which has nothing to do with world prices but is a tax on food coming into the country, the results of which will not even stay here for expenditure but will go direct to Brussels?
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
