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Dairy Products: Meat

Answer

[holding answer 16 March 2010]: The following tables show imports as a percentage of total new supply¹ for raw liquid milk for processing, main dairy products and beef and beef products in 2008."¹ Total new supply is used as a proxy for consumption where total new supply is production in the UK, minus exports, plus imports. To note: some of this new supply will be processed further and exported (so not consumed in the UK). However, this presents a good assessment of imports in relation to UK consumption."

	Million litres	Thousand tonnes	Percentage
Raw liquid milk for processing
Total new supply (production+imports-exports)	12,816	—	—
Total imports (all imports across the Irish border)	49	—	—
Imports as percentage of supply	—	—	0.4
Butter¹
Total new supply (production+imports-exports)	—	169	—
Total imports	—	81	—
Imports as percentage of supply	—	—	48
Cheese
Total new supply (production+imports-exports)	—	720	—
Total imports	—	422	—
Imports as percentage of supply	—	—	59
Cream
Total new supply (production+imports-exports)	—	247	—
Total imports	—	55	—
Imports as percentage of supply	—	—	22
Condensed milk²
Total new supply (production+imports-exports)	—	146	—
Total imports	—	39	—
Imports as percentage of supply	—	—	27
¹ Includes butterfat and oil, dehydrated butter and ghee. ² Includes condensed milk used in the production of chocolate crumb and in the production of sweetened and unsweetened machine skimmed milk. Source: HM Revenue and Customs, DEFRA, RERAD and DARDNI.

	Thousand tonnes	Percentage
Beef and beef products (carcase weight equivalent)
Total new supply for human consumption	1,134	—
Total imports	373	—
Imports as percentage of supply	—	33
Source: Eurostat supply balance sheet for meat.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

507 c1004-6W; 322495

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Dairy products Imports Meat Milk Beef

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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