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European Community (Intervention Surplus Sales)
Mr. Lee asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make representations to the Com- mon Market Commission to ensure that any future sales on sub-economic terms of intervention surplus supplies will be only to those countries known by Her Majesty's Government to comply strictly with the Universal Declaration of Human. Rights.
Mr. Judd: The Government's policy is to minimise agricultural surpluses but that when they do occur, Community con- sumers should benefit whenever possible. The consideration which my hon. Friend has raised would of course be borne in mind in the Government's examination of any proposal by the Commission for the sale of agricultural surpluses on con- cessional terms outside the Community.
European Assembly Members (Pay)
Mr. Lee asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will consult the TUC and the CBF before any new salary scale for the re- muneration of elected Members of the European Assembly is implemented.
Mr. Judd: The decisions on the emolu- ments of elected Members of the Assem- bly will be a matter for the Council of Ministers acting ananimously. I expect that there will be opportunity for debate in this House and the Government will also take fully into account any views received from the TUC and CBI.
Hong Kong (Child Labour)
Mr. Ronald Atkins asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many factory owners were convicted in Hong Kong last year for using child labour..
Mr. Luard: 416.
Arms Limitation
Mr. Arthur Latham asked the Secre- tary of State for Foreign and Common- wealth Affairs what response Her Majesty's Government have suggested should be made by the Russians to the United States decision to pos pode development of the neutron bomb; and
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what response Her Majesty's Government have suggested should be made to M. AL
MA Brezhnev's proposal that no additiona tanks or men should be added to War saw Pact forces.
Mr. Judd: The Government's view is that the Soviet Union should respond by measures to moderate the threat which we see from the scale of their build-up' of both nuclear and conventional arma- ments.
Any undertaking not to increase Soviet forces further in Central Europe is wel- come. President Brezhnev's statement calling on Western states to freeze their forces in the area, however, would still leave NATO forces at their present dis- advantage. It would not produce the genuine parity which is the Western ob- jective in MBFR.
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
Enlargement
46. Mr. Lee asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if, in the course of negotiations for the enlargement of the EEC, he will take steps to ensure that Greece, Portugal and Spain enter the Community with an agricultural system based on deficiency payments rather than a system based on the current Common Agricultural Policy régimes.
Mr. Judd: I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply which my hon. Friend gave him on 11th May.-[Vol. 949, c. 599–600.J
62. Mr. Sandelson asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what progress he hopes to make in discussions on the question of enlarge ment of the EEC at the next meeting of Foreign Ministers.
Mr. Judd: I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave earlier today to my hon. Friend the Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. Hoyle) and the hon. Members for Hazel Grove (Mr. Arnold) and Banbury (Mr. Marten).
Paris
52. Mr. Normanton asked the Sec- retary of State for Foreign and Common- wealth Affairs when he next plans 'O visit Paris on official EEC business.
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