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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

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Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many tonnes of (a) sheep, (b) cattle, (c) pig and (d) poultry offal have entered the UK from (i) Latin America, (ii) Africa, (iii) South Asia, (iv) East Asia, (v) North America, (vi) the EU, (vii) non-EU Europe and (viii) Australasia in each of the last 10 years. [81571] Mr. Morley: The table shows the UK imports of sheep, bovine, pig and poultry offal from (i) Latin America (ii) Africa (iii) South Asia (iv) East Asia (v) North America (vi). The EU (vii) non-EU Europe and (viii) Australasia between 1992-2001, as recorded in the Official Overseas Trade Statistics. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Type of 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 offal _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Africa _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Bovine 0 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 Pig 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Poultry 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sheep 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 17 0 0 Total 0 16 0 0 18 0 0 17 0 0 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Australasia _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Bovine 6,350 6,782 5,357 4,969 2,919 1,305 2,337 1,458 775 225 Pig 0 71 0 19 18 2 1 1 4 0 Poultry 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sheep 12,685 11,789 10,591 13,343 12,585 9,819 9,863 10,998 11,609 12,561 Total 19,035 18,641 15,948 18,331 15,552 11,126 12,201 12,457 12,388 12,786 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. East Asia _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Bovine 0 0 0 0 128 0 0 0 0 0 Pig 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Poultry 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sheep 0 0 0 0 0 18 207 0 0 0 Total 1 3 0 0 128 18 207 0 0 0 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. EU _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Bovine 21,139 20,027 16,411 13,868 9,021 13,360 9,457 11,243 12,731 11,418 Pig 25,066 18,935 20,932 21,348 16,465 16,569 18,187 18,609 28,028 22,939 Poultry 1,122 2,167 3,900 5,195 5,671 11,359 5,115 5,935 4,926 9,147 Sheep 978 717 503 453 650 358 315 372 249 375 Total 48,305 41,864 41,746 40,863 31,806 41,646 33,074 36,158 45,934 43,879 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Latin America _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Bovine 372 402 768 1,477 888 485 311 570 827 546 Pig 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 Poultry 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 0 42 Sheep 203 141 184 60 96 33 61 79 139 47 Total 575 542 952 1,550 983 518 372 672 967 635 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. Non-EU Europe ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. Bovine 36 33 87 19 0 0 0 0 14 41 Pig 0 1 3 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 Poultry 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 Sheep 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 0 0 28 Total 36 34 90 19 0 0 25 0 14 89 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. North America ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. Bovine 1,446 1,850 1,804 1,610 752 75 16 0 0 0 Pig 4,748 3,091 3,313 2,872 1,914 479 596 227 176 133 Poultry 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sheep 35 0 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 6,228 4,956 5,153 4,482 2,666 554 612 227 176 133 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. South Asia ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. Bovine 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Pig 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Poultry 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sheep 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Grand Total 74,180 66,039 63,889 65,246 51,123 53,861 46,491 49,531 59,479 57,523 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. Source: HM Customs and Excise Data prepared by Statistics (Commodities and Food) Accounts and Trade, ESD, DEFRA

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Written question

Reference

394 c294-6W;394 c292-4W; 81571

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Cattle Africa EU countries European Union Imports Poultry Pigs Offal Sheep South Asia Asia East Asia Latin America North America Australasia

Contains statistics

Yes

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