Monopolies And Mergers Commission Inquiry Into The Milk Industry

EDM number 455 in 1998-99, proposed by David Heath on 19/03/1999.

That this House notes the extreme difficulties experienced by many in the dairy sector; further notes that these difficulties are being exacerbated by the delay in publication and failure to reach a decision on the outcome of the report of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission on the milk industry; believes that further indecision on the part of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry is damaging the industry; regrets the entirely inadequate reply given by the Leader of the House on this subject to the honourable Member for North Cornwall on 18th March, Official Report, column 1264; and accordingly calls upon the Secretary of State to publish the report and to make a statement to the House forthwith.

This motion has been signed by a total of 18 MPs.