HC Deb 17 April 1980 vol 982 c676W
30. Mr. Walters

asked the Minister of Agriculture. Fisheries and Food what is the present level of the pig breeding herd.

Mr. Buchanan-Smith

At the December 1979 census, which is the most recent for which results are available, the United Kingdom pig breeding herd of sows and gilts in pig was 816 thousand head.