Milk

Mr. Hayes

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how much milk was produced surplus to requirements by UK farmers; and how much milk was imported in each of the last 10 years. [128259]

It is difficult to determine how much milk is produced that is "surplus to requirements". This will depend on whether one considers the requirements of UK processors and food manufacturers, both for products intended for domestic consumption or export, or the requirements of UK consumers. Nevertheless, I hope the data tabulated as follows on UK imports, exports, production, domestic use and self-sufficiency for the major milk products since 1991 gives an indication of the position.

	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996
UK exports ¹
Unprocessed liquid milk²	72	70	92	133	191	178
Processed liquid milk³	3	3	3	4	5	5
Butter	39	51	52	53	53	51
Cheese	51	48	57	59	55	59
Cream	38	41	69	84	79	96
Condensed milk	47	57	50	52	65	58
Milk powder (full cream)	67	84	57	65	77	75
Skimmed milk powder	71	45	55	61	56	20
UK production ¹
Unprocessed liquid milk²	14,778	14,679	14,742	14,981	14,683	14,680
Processed liquid milk³	6,903	6,980	7,008	6,966	7,128	7,041
Butter	132	127	141	148	133	130
Cheese	309	332	338	341	362	377
Cream	254	240	255	274	281	281
Condensed milk	198	206	191	196	181	206
Milk powder (full cream)	79	84	71	83	90	83
Skimmed milk powder	143	106	132	142	117	108
UK domestic use (disappearances) ¹
Unprocessed liquid milk²	14,706	14,610	14,650	14,848	14,678	14,616
Processed liquid milk³	6,937	7,044	7,059	7,030	7,212	7,101
Butter	206	207	228	231	201	189
Cheese	458	512	466	500	522	557
Cream	22D	i,202	187	194	207	191
Condensed milk	164	,.'., 160	151	155	130	160
Milk powder (full cream)	14	7	19	26	20	19
Skimmed milk powder	86	91	88	89	82	75
UK self sufficiency ⁴
Unprocessed liquid milk²	100	100	101	101	100	100
Processed liquid milk³	100	99	99	99	99	99
Butter	67	62	71	69	69	68
Cheese	69	64	72	69	70	68
Cream	116	119	136	142	136	148
Condensed milk	123	128	127	125	141	130
Milk powder (full cream)⁵
Skimmed milk powder⁶	179	121	148	152	157	107

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002 (provisional)
UK imports ¹
Unprocessed liquid milk²	132	133	115	108	65	74
Processed liquid milk³	63	57	38	36	31	26
Butter	111	105	114	118	115	101
Cheese	240	257	277	255	273	267
Cream	11	11	8	10	18	12
Condensed milk	13	13	14	14	14	11
Milk powder (full cream)	10	10	10	11	8	10
Skimmed milk powder	13	11	14	13	23	14
UK exports ¹
Unprocessed liquid milk²	299	384	479	458	426	433
Processed liquid milk³	6	5	7	7	3	4
Butter	74	65	56	45	41	37
Cheese	53	55	62	58	68	77
Cream	92	101	96	82	84	95
Condensed milk	63	64	51	31	22	30
Milk powder (full cream)	106	106	92	102	86	113
Skimmed milk powder	45	34	60	112	30	23
UKproduction ¹
Unprocessed liquid milk²	14,848	14,640	15,020	14,496	14,715	14,906
Processed liquid milk³	6,949	6,939	7,056	6,969	6,961	6,956
Butter	139	137	141	132	126	141
Cheese	377	366	368	340	395	396
Cream	268	266	275	270	263	257
Condensed milk	214	192	177	162	161	149
Milk powder (full cream)	96	97	102	105	83	105
Skimmed milk powder	109	107	102	83	71	71

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002 (provisional)
UK domestic use (disappearances) ¹
Unprocessed liquid milk²	14,681	14,388	14,656	14,146	14,335	14,547
Processed liquid milk³	7,006	6,991	7,087	6,998	6,989	6,978
Butter	182	172	187	209	200	196
Cheese	561	577	583	536	596	584
Cream	187	176	188	198	197	174
Condensed milk	166	141	138	146	150	131
Milk powder (full cream)	—	1	20	15	2	3
Skimmed milk powder	59	57	68	50	56	45
UK self sufficiency ⁴
Unprocessed liquid milk²	101	102	102	102	103	102
Processed liquid milk³	99	99	100	100	100	100
Butter	79	78	71	64	63	64
Cheese	67	64	63	63	66	65
Cream	144	151	146	137	134	140
Condensed milk	130	136	127	111	105	114
Milk powder (full cream)⁵
Skimmed milk powder⁶	141	127	180	-527	111	115
¹ Thousand tonnes except figures for liquid milk, which are expressed in million litres.
² Unprocessed liquid milk is milk in its natural state prior to any form of separation or processing and may be destined for either the drinking or manufacture market.
³ Processed liquid milk is the product following separation and treatment suitable for the drinking milk market.
⁴ Production as percentage of total new supply.
⁵ As the UK only makes negligible use of full cream milk powders the self sufficiency calculation is meaningless.
⁶ Self sufficiency rate for 2000 is not representative of other years because of the sale of intervention stocks of skimmed milk powder.

Source:

Agriculture in the United Kingdom (2002).

Volume 410: debated on Monday 18 August 2003