§ Mr. Macleanasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list in the last year for which statistics are available (a) the amount and proportion, respectively, of United Kingdom production of liquid milk used for (i) doorstep delivery, (ii) butter, (iii) cheese and (iv) other dairy products, (b) the amount of dairy imports into the United Kingdom broken down into country of origin and product and (c) the exports of United Kingdom dairy produce broken down into country of destination and product.
§ Mr. MacGregorThe utilisation of total sales of milk through Milk Marketing Board schemes in 1983 in the United Kingdom was as follows:
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Million litres Percentage of total For liquid consumption 6,945.4 42.2 Butter 5,291.8 32.2 Cheese 2,440.0 14.8 Other products 1,748.6 10.6 Total* 16,441.8 100.0 * The sum of liquid sales and manufactured products do not equal the total due to measurement adjustment. Details of imports and exports of dairy produce are given in the Overseas Trade Statistics of the United Kingdom, published by HMSO and available in the Library of the House.