Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 20 Rhagfyr 1973.
The answer to my hon. Friend's second question is, "Yes". The sugar subsidy was introduced last spring. It was going to be removed at the end of December last year, but because we were in the period of freeze in the first stage of the counter-inflation measures it was eventually phased out.
My hon. Friend also asked me to publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT how we arrived at the figure I gave. I remind him that in my main answer, before pointing out that this would result in an increase of only between ¼ per cent. and ½ per cent. next year, I said that tariff changes are not necessarily reflected in retail prices. It is thus very difficult to state how we did arrive at the conclusion I have given the House, but I shall attempt to produce our reasons in the OFFICIAL REPORT.