§ Dr. PalmerTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many(a) live sheep and (b) live pigs were exported from the United Kingdom in 1997 for (i) slaughter, (ii) further fattening and (iii) breeding; and how many live (1) sheep and (2) pigs in each of these categories were exported to each individual country of destination.[37196]
§ Mr. RookerThe table, derived from Departmental records, gives details of sheep and pigs certified for export from the United Kingdom. The figures do not include information on the number of sheep exported from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland as sheep are not officially certified for such trade under a special arrangement provided for in EC trade rules.
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Numbers of sheep and pigs certified for export from the United Kingdom in 1997 Country Sheep Pigs Slaughter Further fattening Breeding Slaughter Further fattening Breeding Latvia - - - - - 151 Malaysia - - - - - 338 Mexico - - - - - 1,070 Netherlands - 168,510 82 1,542 467 18,700 Nigeria - - - - - 46 North Korea - - - - - 70 Philippines - - - - - 340 Poland - - - - - 113 Portugal - - - - - 83 Republic of Ireland 1,212 - 177 78,270 326 2,119 Romania - - - - - 217 Russia - - - - - 350 Slovakia - - - - - 111 South Korea - - - - - 684 Spain 6,689 669 350 - 2,050 373,024 Taiwan - - - - - 70 Thailand - - - - - 545 United States of America - - - - - 122 Vietnam - - - - - 874 Total 36,195 404,305 1,167 82,926 15,259 523,104 This information is provisional and subject to change.
It is common practice for export health certificates to be issued in anticipation of exports which do not then take place. The central computer system is updated periodically to remove details of withdrawn export consignments from the records but we cannot guarantee that this information is complete. Confirmation of the actual numbers of animals exported could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.