HC Deb 14 March 1990 vol 169 cc243-4W
Sir Peter Emery

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the production and sale by month over the last 12 months of British eggs; and what was the level of importation and sale month by month of eggs from overseas during the same period.

Mr. Curry

The latest monthly data for throughput at packing stations in Great Britain (that is excluding Northern Ireland) and in the United Kingdom and for imports into the United Kingdom are as follows. Figures are not collected on sales of eggs.

thousand boxes (of 360 eggs)
Great Britain Packing station throughput United Kingdom Packing station throughput Imports into United Kingdom
1989
February 2,060 2,202 21
March 2,093 2,231 22
April 12,711 12,889 111
May 2,227 2,367 78
June 2,250 2,393 72
July 12,681 12,843 63
August 2,117 2,256 98
September 2,148 2,296 161
October 12,659 12,847 106
November 2,041 2,203 207
December 2,035 2,186 150

Children who received a statement of special educational need1
1986 1987 1988
Number Per cent. Number Per cent. Number Per cent.
Clwyd 377 0.5 187 0.3 213 0.3
Dyfed 160 0.3 104 0.2 121 0.2
Gwent 272 0.4 235 0.3 463 0.6
Gwynedd 80 0.2 70 0.2 99 0.3
Mid Glamorgan 537 0.6 575 0.6 643 0.7
Powys 17 0.1 16 0.1 30 0.2
South Glamorgan 217 0.3 201 0.3 174 0.3
West Glamorgan 274 0.5 234 0.4 304 0.5
1 The figures shown indicate the number of children, in each calendar year, for whom statements of special education need were made for the first time.

Great Britain Packing station throughput United Kingdom Packing station throughput Imports into United Kingdom
1990
January 12,681 12,882 105
1 5 week months.

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