§ Mr. JoplingTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will give the number of hens kept for(a) laying eggs and (b) poultrymeat production in each county.
§ Mr. SoamesThe information requested is given in the following table. Data are from the 1991 June agricultural census. Estimates for minor holdings are excluded.
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Number of laying hens and table chicken by county June 1991 agricultural and horticultural census1 County Hens kept mainly for producing eggs for eating2 Breeding hens Table chicken Cleveland 28,706 28 1,249,027 Cumbria 396,012 48,455 1,488,874 Durham 151,800 16,234 335,786 Northumberland 58,702 16,110 38,276 Tyne and Wear 64,479 22 0 Humberside 188,969 165,630 1,021,189 North Yorkshire 1,073,912 83,911 3,950,065 South Yorkshire 251,935 7,047 313,644 West Yorkshire 619,922 60,220 343,922 Derbyshire 223,991 492 1,757,260 Leicestershire 289,574 17,211 1,014,567 Lincolnshire 2,286,927 626,543 2,786,702 Northamptonshire 386,490 81,358 686,315 Nottinghamshire 1,199,964 27,450 274,084 Cambridgeshire 357,039 40,421 1,621,364 Norfolk 1,695,264 507,712 4,054,052 Suffolk 543,750 67,881 4,191,549 Bedfordshire 396,483 370 213,728 Berkshire 163,084 198 109,068 Buckinghamshire 214,583 106 1,763,907 East Sussex 219,883 400 554,579 Essex 874,972 284,330 2,214,152 Greater London 33,471 25,364 110 Hampshire 1,383,803 290,694 2,577,162 Hertfordshire 115,655 137,445 495,366 Isle of Wight 11,453 778 12 Kent 1,316,886 55,420 764,210 Oxfordshire 467,661 86,686 271,376 Surrey 185,977 29,397 390,929 West Sussex 549,236 1,113 511,241 Avon 488,420 534 171,525 Cornwall and Isles of Stilly 685,752 862 94,489 Devon 1,247,897 93,654 2,070,086 Dorset 456,225 12,522 892,766 Gloucestershire 452,697 139,418 546,763 Somerset 409,954 161,620 2,670,988 Wiltshire 966,905 96,648 2,580,654 Hereford and Worcester 776,566 360,045 4,935,620 Shropshire 1,876,694 39,032 1,758,698 Staffordshire 683,927 40,863 549,589 Warwickshire 357,932 86,527 903,101 West Midlands 108,862 43 24,108 Cheshire 663,548 120,712 1,232,193 Greater Manchester 257,017 270 198,141 Lancashire 1,273,554 159,359 1,855,844 Merseyside 236,419 9,566 113,905 England 26,692,952 4,000,701 55,590,986 Notes: 1 Minor holdings excluded. 2 Growing pullets excluded.
Counties Enforcement authority Number of inspections of food premises2 Number of establishments subject to Issue of improvement notices Issue of emergency prohibition notices Written warnings Closures (voluntary and compulsory) Avon3 1,451 0 0 0 0 Bedfordshire 772 0 0 3 0 Berkshire 570 0 0 0 0 Buckinghamshire3 410 0 0 0 0 Cambridgeshire 907 0 0 172 0