HC Deb 04 February 1988 vol 126 cc729-30W
49. Mr. Steinberg

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is his estimate of the present number of breeding ewes in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Donald Thompson

Provisional figures from the June 1987 agricultural census show 18.056 million ewes and shearlings in the United Kingdom (Source: "Annual Review of Agriculture 1988" (Cmnd. 299)).

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