§ Dr. PalmerTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his answers of 18 November 1997,Official Report, column 117 and 4 December 1997, Official Report, column 355, if he will provide a breakdown of the numbers of pigs exported for breeding to each country concerned from January to October. [22613]
§ Mr. RookerComputer records up-dated since my previous answer indicate that the number of breeding pigs certified for export from the United Kingdom between January and October 1997 inclusive is as follows:
Country Number Belgium 36,438 Canada 600 Czech Republic 559 China 795 Denmark 974 Falkland Islands 25 France 26,573 Germany 40,595 Greece 661 Republic of Ireland 1,080 Italy 8,837 Japan 248 Latvia 102 Malaysia (Peninsula) 338 Mexico 709 Netherlands 13,344 Nigeria 46 Philippines 164 Poland 80 Portugal 83 Romania 217 Slovakia 87 South Korea 538 Spain 19,372 Taiwan 70 Thailand 482 Russia 350 United States of America 122 Total 153,489 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 The central computer system is updated periodically to remove details of withdrawn export consignments from the records but we cannot guarantee
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Payment rates (£ per head)—Sheep annual premium scheme, suckler cow premium scheme, hill livestock compensatory allowances Sheep annual premium Suckler cow premium Including LFA supplement Cash prices Excluding LFA supplied 1997 prices Including extensification premia Cash prices Excluding extensification premia 1997 prices Cash prices 1997 prices Cash prices 1997 prices 1993 24.41 27.32 19.25 21.55 93.90 105.12 65.73 73.58 1994 22.21 24.28 16.96 18.45 115.12 125.83 87.49 95.63 1995 26.95 28.47 21.26 22.46 143.04 151.10 114.43 120.88 1996 19.04 19.64 13.66 14.09 155.15 160.03 124.12 128.02 1159.48 1159.48 1997 n/a n/a n/a n/a 2146.52 2146.52 117.36 117.36 that this information is complete. Confirmation of the actual numbers of animals exported could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.