§ Dr. StrangTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the turnover in terms of value, of livestock auctions for each county in England; and how many auctions account for that value in each county.
Sales through livestock auction markets in 1991 by county (number of animals) County Cattle Sheep Pigs Calves Total Avon 15,886 41,741 2,512 14,433 74,572 Bedfordshire 692 36,057 26 169 36,944 Berkshire 2,967 8,814 2,795 2,235 16,811 Buckinghamshire 944 16,884 — — 17,828 Cambridgeshire — — — — — Cheshire 112,995 164,638 36,492 88,823 402,948 Cornwall 107,242 262,870 7,359 31,489 408,960 Cumbria 256,931 2,110,920 10,232 35,823 2,413,906 Derbyshire 134,708 265,847 11,388 44,546 456,489 Devon 146,942 925,257 12,198 75,333 1,159,730 Dorset 30,275 74,486 4,898 46,211 155,870 County Durham 52,675 372,802 26,996 11,772 464,245 Essex 24,507 23,961 7,865 4,247 60,580 Gloucestershire 74,292 318,578 19,031 40,067 451,968 Hampshire 0 0 0 0 0 Hereford and Worcestershire 119,308 913,022 16,389 21,811 1,070,530 Hertfordshire 4,162 32,908 669 1,323 39,062 Humberside 17,708 82,130 129,716 1,639 231,193 Kent 27,627 345,807 8,737 5,800 387,971 Lancashire 131,236 524,688 3,605 37,412 696,941 Leicestershire 36,585 295,026 12,047 17,500 361,158 Lincolnshire 26,143 152,745 8,445 2,556 189,889 Middlesex 383 — 893 79 1,355 Norfolk 41,015 60,531 53,411 3,757 158,714 Northamptonshire 23,224 110,503 6,573 5,667 145,967 Northumbria 107,603 850,217 11,115 1,162 970,097 Nottinghamshire 38,816 99,327 27 3,617 141,787 Oxfordshire 108,326 470,915 112,886 17,552 709,679 Shropshire 154,301 818,791 32,951 60,687 1,066,730 Somerset 155,678 501,800 21,200 89,839 768,517 Staffordshire 54,731 159,306 55,246 13,698 282,981 Suffolk 25,552 49,317 144,767 4,553 224,189 Surrey 41,517 71,031 5,300 8,598 126,446 Sussex 27,754 131,687 2,184 4,004 165,629 Warwickshire 33,189 263,760 54,765 7,842 359,556 Wiltshire 59,945 60,006 15,627 27,958 163,536 North Yorkshire 251,120 1,367,159 407,745 38,908 2,064,932 South Yorkshire 4,313 8,328 15,929 533 29,103 West Yorkshire 46,003 236,477 18,925 8,242 309,647 Total 2,497,295 12,228,336 1,280,944 779,885 16,786,460