§ Mr. Matthew TaylorTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list in theOfficial Report the numbers of breeding sows in each English and Welsh region and county pig herd for each year from 1979 to date of the most recently available figures.
§ Mr. Donald ThompsonThe information is contained in the table.
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County by Standard Statistical Region Total breeding pig herd 1979–86 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 England and Wales 717,672 701,116 713,883 736,195 727,395 690,098 715,167 714,539 Cleveland 4,229 4,015 3,877 4,323 4,246 4,004 3,869 4,351 Cumbria 6,064 6,514 6,386 6,164 6,345 6,415 6,373 6,223 Durham 4,820 4,911 5,245 4,841 4,976 5,000 5,158 5,184 Northumberland 2,913 2,863 2,668 2,672 2,476 2,449 2,302 2,289 Tyne and Wear 802 607 567 612 561 376 474 385 North Region 18,828 18,910 18,743 18,612 18,604 18,244 18,176 18,432 Humberside 73,568 73,919 76,144 78,954 78,696 78,774 81,363 83,142 North Yorks (North Allerton) 35,051 35,243 48,952 54,890 54,357 56,429 59,935 61,363 North Yorks (Beverley) — — 8,814 9,458 9,808 9,151 9,653 11,078 North Yorks (Harrogate) 20,120 21,276 — — — — — — South Yorkshire 6,124 6,074 6,069 5,857 6,381 5,959 5,895 6,609 West Yorkshire 12,247 11,946 11,873 13,149 12,490 12,201 15,181 15,319 Yorks and Humberside 147,110 148,458 151,852 162,308 161,732 162,514 172,009 177,511 Derbyshire 5,342 4,813 4,982 6,096 5,680 5,505 5,381 5,537 Leicestershire 8,050 7,327 7,408 7,552 6,476 6,476 6,558 6,769 Lincolnshire 31,799 33,359 32,592 32,839 31,150 31,150 31,069 31,661 Northamptonshire 8,184 8,270 8,356 8,576 7,945 7,945 7,778 7,683 Nottinghamshire 14,517 14,373 14,928 14,474 15,114 15,114 14,790 14,707 East Midlands Region 67,892 68,142 68,266 69,537 70,244 66,190 65,576 66,357 Cambridgeshire 25,072 22,258 22,387 22,825 21,902 19,271 18,133 17,453 Norfolk 57,901 56,451 58,056 59,547 58,360 54,493 56,992 57,231 Suffolk 61,187 60,811 60,832 63,491 60,155 56,050 57,223 55,914 East Anglia Region 144,160 139,520 141,275 145,863 140,417 129,814 132,348 130,598 Bedfordshire 8,468 7,973 7,811 8,005 8,123 7,616 8,864 8,564 Berkshire 9,196 8,718 9,063 9,562 9,462 8,585 8,985 8,631 Buckinghamshire 7,963 7,260 7,526 7,136 6,901 6,522 6,190 6,038 East Sussex 5,774 5,226 5,298 5,351 4,996 4,030 4,381 4,321 Essex 25,561 23,504 23,069 21,668 20,267 19,161 19,351 18,692 Greater London (East) 306 258 285 311 249 236 373 487 Greater London (South East) 1,697 1,661 1,518 1,609 1,308 1,155 1,257 1,113 Hampshire 15,993 15,224 16,180 16,745 17,566 14,994 16,838 17,557 Hertfordshire 6,163 6,134 5,918 5,946 5,393 4,372 4,161 3,794 Isle of Wight 1,396 1,344 1,164 1,120 1,205 1,195 1,235 1,058 Kent 13,519 12,923 12,218 12,269 11,495 10,350 9,704 9,715 Oxfordshire 22,060 22,524 22,051 23,683 24,824 24,523 27,490 26,194 Surrey 6,426 6,210 6,204 6,025 5,870 4,934 4,775 4,216 West Sussex 7,081 8,104 8,891 9,075 8,969 7,974 7,748 8,057 South East Region 131,608 127,063 127,196 128,505 126,628 115,647 121,352 118,437 Avon 5,160 5,010 5,138 4,933 4,943 4,576 4,592 4,647 Cornwall 13,084 11,373 11,770 12,133 11,461 10,172 10,393 9,965 Devon 23,208 22,663 22,332 22,717 22,379 21,412 23,104 23,820 Dorset 11,432 13,401 13,774 14,306 13,753 14,327 15,066 13,110 Gloucestershire 8,280 7,615 8,062 8,585 8,476 7,953 8,004 7,952 Isles of Scilly 2 2 1 3 2 2 2 2 Somerset 18,670 17,084 18,565 19,135 19,058 17,149 19,015 19,953 Wiltshire 15,716 15,477 16,839 17,155 16,844 17,130 17,145 18,118 South West Region 95,552 92,625 96,481 98,967 96,916 92,721 97,321 97,567 Hereford and Worcester 15,209 15,252 15,188 15,359 15,364 14,266 14,451 14,492 Shropshire 16,657 16,406 17,428 17,800 17,673 16,474 16,155 15,616 Staffordshire 12,013 11,450 11,650 11,779 12,842 12,619 13,357 13,569 Warwickshire 6,721 6,114 6,095 6,128 6,178 5,871 5,807 5,295 West Midlands 2,462 2,167 2,421 2,658 2,552 2,297 2,573 2,672 West Midlands Region 53,062 51,389 52,782 53,724 54,609 51,527 52,343 51,644 Cheshire 11,678 11,419 11,586 11,728 12,508 11,450 12,148 11,457 Greater Manchester 4,649 4,083 4,172 4,354 4,453 3,641 4,063 3,846 Lancashire 24,906 22,743 24,557 24,394 23,681 22,881 23,346 22,010 Merseyside 1,379 1,369 1,488 1,479 1,228 1,141 978 1,130 North West Region 42,612 39,614 41,803 41,955 41,870 39,113 40,535 38,443
County by Standard Statistical Region Total breeding pig herd 1979–86 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 England 700,824 685,721 698,398 719,471 711,020 675,770 699,660 698,989 Clwyd 3,402 3,366 3,387 3,327 3,371 2,788 3,221 3,252 Dyfed 4,797 4,321 4,498 4,646 4,680 3,974 4,098 3,878 Gwent 1,993 2,048 1,844 2,722 2,766 2,830 2,902 3,315 Gwynedd 1,977 1,677 1,525 1,689 1,359 1,040 1,123 1,116 Mid Glamorgan 544 481 563 542 546 395 448 409 Powys 3,119 2,562 2,578 2,480 2,345 1,935 2,260 2,137 South Glamorgan 837 797 944 1,141 1,109 1,137 1,208 1,189 West Glamorgan 182 143 143 177 199 229 247 254 Wales 16,848 15,395 15,485 16,724 16,375 14,328 15,507 15,550