HC Deb 03 May 2000 vol 349 c140W
Mr. Prosser

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his answer of 1 March 2000,Official Report, column 286W, on live animal exports, from which counties in England and Wales the sheep removed from consignments of slaughter/further fattening sheep in 1999 by his staff at Dover port originated; and how many originated from each of those counties. [120077]

Mr. Morley

The counties in England and Wales from which animals removed from consignments of slaughter/further fattening sheep by staff at Dover port in 1999 started their journeys, and the total number of animals starting their journeys in those counties were:

in numbers of this species. It is anticipated that the document will be published by DETR in the near future, with a view to it being submitted to the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas (ASCOBANS) Meeting of Parties in Bristol in July.