Bobby Calves

HC Deb 23 February 1995 vol 255 cc313-4W

Mr. Morley

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many bobby calves were slaughtered in Great Britain each year since 1970.

Mrs. Browning

The number of bobby calves that are slaughtered are not separately recorded. However, the information does allow the number of slaughtered calves to be split by weight as shown in the table.

Slaughter of calves in Great Britain (th.head)
	1Light calves	2Heavy calves	Total calves
19703	—	—	350.0
19713	—	—	254.5
19723	—	—	149.4
19733	—	—	140.4
1974	377.3	36.1	413.3
1975	470.6	50.4	521.0
1976	261.8	32.9	294.7
1977	231.3	32.0	263.3
1978	126.6	27.6	154.2
1979	122.7	21.5	134.9
1980	122.6	21.5	144.1
1981	93.7	25.2	118.9
1982	68.7	24.5	93.3
1983	85.9	31.2	117.1
1984	94.4	38.0	132.4
1985	69.9	31.0	100.8
1986	59.1	19.3	78.4
1987	46.0	19.7	65.7
1988	23.4	11.1	34.4
1989	20.9	6.7	27.6
1990	38.0	7.3	45.3
1991	40.7	8.3	48.9
1992	25.5	6.8	32.2
1993	14.7	3.8	18.4
19944	18.8	3.5	22.3
1 Less than 64 kg dressed carcase weight.
2 Between 65 kg and 127 kg dressed carcase weight.
3 Before 1974, figures were collected for total calves only.
4 Provisional.