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Deer: Slaughtering

Volume 445: debated on Monday 5 December 1983

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asked Her Majesty's Government:How many deer have been slaughtered in commercial slaughterhouses in England and Wales, and in Scotland, since 1st January 1981.

Deer are not normally slaughtered in commercial slaughterhouses in England and Wales. There have been limited trials in one slaughterhouse in Scotland in 1982 and 1983 in the course of which 229 deer have been slaughtered to date.