Written question asked by Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat) on Thursday, 29 June 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 4 July 2006. It was answered by Barry Gardiner (Labour) on Thursday, 6 July 2006 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Milk

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the average price per litre paid to (a) farmers, (b) purchasers and (c) supermarkets for milk was in each month in each year since 1997.

Answer

[holding answer 4 July 2006]: The information requested is as follows.(a) The table shows monthly weighted average farm gate milk prices in pence per litre for the United Kingdom.The average prices are calculated from monthly surveys of milk purchasers conducted in England and Wales by Defra, in Scotland by SEERAD and in Northern Ireland by DARD.The farm gate price is the average price received by producers, net of delivery charges. No deduction has been made for superlevy.(b) Prices paid by retailers to milk purchases are not available.(c) Prices are derived from the Expenditure and Food Survey and are for the top five shops (in terms of value of food and drink purchased) as identified in this survey. Prior to 2001-02 this information was collected as part of the National Food Survey and cannot be broken down by retail outlet in this way.

	Supermarket price (liquid wholemilk)	Farmgate price (including bonus payments)
2001-02	43.79	19.31
2002-03	44.98	16.86
2003-04	47.37	18.27
2004-05¹	48.00	18.39
¹ Pence per litre.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 82451; 448 c1289W
Session: 2005-06
Subjects: Prices Milk
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk

Milk

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