Meat Exports

HC Deb 09 July 1996 vol 281 cc122-3W

Ms Walley

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what estimate he has made of the size of the United Kingdom meat processing export trade as of 1 March. [24099]

Mrs. Browning

I have been asked to reply.

Provisional data on the exports of meat and meat preparations from the UK, from March 1995 to February 1996, as recorded in the Overseas Trade Statistics, are shown in the table. Meat originating from the UK is not separately identifiable.

	£ million	Tonnes
Total exports of meat, meat offal and preparations of meat and offal	1,395	779,022
of which:
Bovine meat and bovine offal (fresh, chilled or frozen)	600	279,804
Other meat and other offal (fresh, chilled or frozen)	701	463,105

	£ million	Tonnes
Preparations of bovine meat and bovine offal	15	5,826
Other preparations of meat and offal1	79	30,286
1 Includes some bovine meat which is not separately identifiable.