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Dr. Strang
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the turnover in terms of value, of livestock auctions for each county in England; and how many auctions account for that value in each county.
| Sales through livestock auction markets in 1991 by county (number of animals) | |||||
| County | Cattle | Sheep | Pigs | Calves | Total |
| Avon | 15,886 | 41,741 | 2,512 | 14,433 | 74,572 |
| Bedfordshire | 692 | 36,057 | 26 | 169 | 36,944 |
| Berkshire | 2,967 | 8,814 | 2,795 | 2,235 | 16,811 |
| Buckinghamshire | 944 | 16,884 | — | — | 17,828 |
| Cambridgeshire | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cheshire | 112,995 | 164,638 | 36,492 | 88,823 | 402,948 |
| Cornwall | 107,242 | 262,870 | 7,359 | 31,489 | 408,960 |
| Cumbria | 256,931 | 2,110,920 | 10,232 | 35,823 | 2,413,906 |
| Derbyshire | 134,708 | 265,847 | 11,388 | 44,546 | 456,489 |
| Devon | 146,942 | 925,257 | 12,198 | 75,333 | 1,159,730 |
| Dorset | 30,275 | 74,486 | 4,898 | 46,211 | 155,870 |
| County Durham | 52,675 | 372,802 | 26,996 | 11,772 | 464,245 |
| Essex | 24,507 | 23,961 | 7,865 | 4,247 | 60,580 |
| Gloucestershire | 74,292 | 318,578 | 19,031 | 40,067 | 451,968 |
| Hampshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hereford and Worcestershire | 119,308 | 913,022 | 16,389 | 21,811 | 1,070,530 |
| Hertfordshire | 4,162 | 32,908 | 669 | 1,323 | 39,062 |
| Humberside | 17,708 | 82,130 | 129,716 | 1,639 | 231,193 |
| Kent | 27,627 | 345,807 | 8,737 | 5,800 | 387,971 |
| Lancashire | 131,236 | 524,688 | 3,605 | 37,412 | 696,941 |
| Leicestershire | 36,585 | 295,026 | 12,047 | 17,500 | 361,158 |
| Lincolnshire | 26,143 | 152,745 | 8,445 | 2,556 | 189,889 |
| Middlesex | 383 | — | 893 | 79 | 1,355 |
| Norfolk | 41,015 | 60,531 | 53,411 | 3,757 | 158,714 |
| Northamptonshire | 23,224 | 110,503 | 6,573 | 5,667 | 145,967 |
| Northumbria | 107,603 | 850,217 | 11,115 | 1,162 | 970,097 |
| Nottinghamshire | 38,816 | 99,327 | 27 | 3,617 | 141,787 |
| Oxfordshire | 108,326 | 470,915 | 112,886 | 17,552 | 709,679 |
| Shropshire | 154,301 | 818,791 | 32,951 | 60,687 | 1,066,730 |
| Somerset | 155,678 | 501,800 | 21,200 | 89,839 | 768,517 |
| Staffordshire | 54,731 | 159,306 | 55,246 | 13,698 | 282,981 |
| Suffolk | 25,552 | 49,317 | 144,767 | 4,553 | 224,189 |
| Surrey | 41,517 | 71,031 | 5,300 | 8,598 | 126,446 |
| Sussex | 27,754 | 131,687 | 2,184 | 4,004 | 165,629 |
| Warwickshire | 33,189 | 263,760 | 54,765 | 7,842 | 359,556 |
| Wiltshire | 59,945 | 60,006 | 15,627 | 27,958 | 163,536 |
| North Yorkshire | 251,120 | 1,367,159 | 407,745 | 38,908 | 2,064,932 |
| South Yorkshire | 4,313 | 8,328 | 15,929 | 533 | 29,103 |
| West Yorkshire | 46,003 | 236,477 | 18,925 | 8,242 | 309,647 |
| Total | 2,497,295 | 12,228,336 | 1,280,944 | 779,885 | 16,786,460 |