§ Mr. Maxwell-Hyslopasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will publish in the Official Report the figures for 1975, 1976, 1977 and 1978 appearing in annex I of Cmnd. 6020, 1974–75, "Food from Our Own Resources", and also annex III and annex V thereof.
§ Mr. WigginThe information requested to the latest available date is as follows:
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UNITED KINGDOM SELF-SUFFICIENCY FOR MAIN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS Production as a percentage of total new supply 1975 1976 1977 1978(a) Cereals … … … … … … 69 62 67 80 Potatoes … … … … … … 91 75 81 91 Sugar … … … … … … 26 29 37 40 Oilseed rape … … … … … 60 49 49 43 Total meat supplies … … … … 83 83 82 82 Beef and veal … … … … 92 89 86 87 Mutton and lamb … … … … 56 57 58 61 Pork … … … … … … 99 100 100 96 Bacon and ham … … … … 42 45 43 42 Poultrymeat … … … … … 99 102 104 103 Milk and milk products … … … … 50 57 64 n.a.(b) Eggs … … … … … … 98 100 101 102 Wool … … … … … … 32 27 30 26 Source: Annual Reviews of Agriculture n.a. =not available (a) =Forecast (b) =Source: MMB—EEC Dairy Facts and Figures 1977 (for 1975–6) 1978 (for 1977
AVERAGE SIZE OF DAIRY HEARD ANNUAL YIELD PER COW Average size of dairy herd (cows) Annual Yield per cow (kgs) 1975 1976 1977 1975 1976 1977 United Kingdom … … … 40 42.1 44.3 4,264 4,427 4,621 Netherlands … … … 24.2 25.9 27.4 4,620 4,725 4,815 Denmark … … … … 16.3 17.3 18.2 4,491 4,566 4,690 France … … … … 12 n.a. n.a. 3,207 3,260 3,297 Germany … … … … 9.4 9.8 10.4 3,997 4,105 4,181 Irish Republic … … … 10.4 n.a. 12.4 2,631 2,880 2,977 Source: MMB—EEC Dairy Facts and Figures 1978
MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS* SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN BUTTERFAT (BF) AND SOLIDS—NOT-FAT (SNF)† BF SNF BF SNF BF SNF 1975 1976 1977(‡) Netherlands … … … … 242 125 256 109 242 104 Denmark … … … … … 223 133 222 121 215 128 Irish Republic … … … … 174 166 164 199 185 205 France … … … … … 110 124 109 113 107 116 Germany … … … … 112 128 117 111 115 114 Belgium/Luxembourg … … … 102 130 88 103 99 102 Italy … … … … … 81 79 79 75 81 77 United Kingdom … … … 56 103 63 107 68 112 EEC as a whole … … … 103 117 106 108 108 110 Source: MMB-EEC Dairy Facts and Figures 1978. *Figures in terms of milk equivalent are not available. †The self-sufficiency ratio is defined as the total availability of butterfat/solids-not-fat divided by total domestic disappearance of butterfat/solids-not-fat in all milk and dairy products. ‡Provisional.