Parlimentary Questions: Written Replies
Wednesday 10 March 1993 00:02 GMT
CommentsSTOCKPILE: The strategic food stockpile is to be liquidated by March 1996, John Gummer, Minister for Agriculture, said. New systems for locating on-farm, wholesale and retail stocks meant the stockpile, maintained since World War Two, was no longer justified.
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