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Animal Exports And Meat Imports

Volume 893: debated on Monday 9 June 1975

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asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will set out the cost and quantity of tinned meat imported into the United Kingdom during each of the last five years, and the comparable earnings from the export of live food animals for slaughter during each of the last five years.

The information requested is set out below.

UNITED KINGDOM IMPORTS OF TINNED MEAT (excluding tinned products which are only partially meat)
Quantity (000 tons)Value (£000 c.i.f.)
1970114·058,201
1971119·869,270
1972124·774,702
1973133·2105,135
1974108·2108,010
UNITED KINGDOM EXPORTS OF LIVE CATTLE SHEEP AND PIGS EXCLUDING BREEDING ANIMALS
Value (£000f.o.b.)
197019,459*
197110,771*
197221,261*
197323,271
19749,712
* Including any pigs for breeding. These were not separately distinguished until February 1973.

Source: United Kingdom Overseas Trade Statistics.

There have also been sales of beef from intervention stocks in the same period, but these have been to private traders who are free to sell wherever they can find a market. Consequently the final destination of these disposals is not known.