Eggs

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To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the production and sale by month over the last 12 months of British eggs; and what was the level of importation and sale month by month of eggs from overseas during the same period.

The latest monthly data for throughput at packing stations in Great Britain (that is excluding Northern Ireland) and in the United Kingdom and for imports into the United Kingdom are as follows. Figures are not collected on sales of eggs.

thousand boxes (of 360 eggs)
	Great Britain Packing station throughput	United Kingdom Packing station throughput	Imports into United Kingdom
1989
February	2,060	2,202	21
March	2,093	2,231	22
April	¹2,711	¹2,889	111
May	2,227	2,367	78
June	2,250	2,393	72
July	¹2,681	¹2,843	63
August	2,117	2,256	98
September	2,148	2,296	161
October	¹2,659	¹2,847	106
November	2,041	2,203	207
December	2,035	2,186	150

Children who received a statement of special educational need¹
	1986		1987		1988
	Number	Per cent.	Number	Per cent.	Number	Per cent.
Clwyd	377	0·5	187	0·3	213	0·3
Dyfed	160	0·3	104	0·2	121	0·2
Gwent	272	0·4	235	0·3	463	0·6
Gwynedd	80	0·2	70	0·2	99	0·3
Mid Glamorgan	537	0·6	575	0·6	643	0·7
Powys	17	0·1	16	0·1	30	0·2
South Glamorgan	217	0·3	201	0·3	174	0·3
West Glamorgan	274	0·5	234	0·4	304	0·5
¹ The figures shown indicate the number of children, in each calendar year, for whom statements of special education need were made for the first time.

Great Britain Packing station throughput

United Kingdom Packing station throughput

Imports into United Kingdom

1990

January

¹2,681

¹2,882

105

¹ 5 week months.

Volume 169: debated on Wednesday 14 March 1990