§ Mr. Corbettasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what, in each of the last five years, was the number of fanned deer slaughtered (a) on farm and (b) in abattoirs in England and Wales.
§ Mrs. FennerThis information is not collected by my Department. In its report on the welfare of fanned deer the Farm Animal Welfare Council records an estimate, made in 1983, that around 3,000 farmed deer were slaughtered annually in Great Britain. Deer are not normally slaughtered in abattoirs in England and Wales in any numbers.