Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the 10 largest domestic subsidies used by UK industry by virtue of UK membership of EU trading arrangements under the World Trade Organisation definition of aggregate measurement of support are by (a) type of good, (b) sector, (c) quantity of goods affected and (d) estimated value to the UK economy.
The most recent notification for the EU domestic support in agriculture is for the marketing year 2012/13.
The total aggregate measure of support notified was €5.9bn. This is overwhelmingly market price support which is only calculated for the EU as a whole and not for individual member states. The products with the largest notified support are:
Product | Aggregate Measure of Support |
Butter | €2,743m |
Common wheat | €1,865m |
Skimmed milk powder | €1,145m |
Wine | €696m |
Milk | €192m |
Ethyl alcohol | €82m |
Sugar | €59m |
Bee keeping | €43m |
Olive oil | €18m |
Fibre flax and hemp | €7m |