Livestock: Production
Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Ian Paisley Jnr (North Antrim, DUP)
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make an assessment of trends in levels of livestock production in each of the last five years.
James Paice (Minister of State (Agriculture and Food), Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; South East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
The following tables show the value and volume of UK livestock production between 2006 and 2010. These are the latest years for which figures are available, and the data are sourced from the Agriculture in the UK publication produced by DEFRA:
| Value of production (£ million) | ||||||
| 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | Percentage change 2006 to 2010 | |
| Beef and veal | 1593 | 1668 | 2095 | 2130 | 2221 | +39 |
| Pigmeat | 678 | 733 | 867 | 972 | 981 | +45 |
| Mutton and Lamb | 712 | 638 | 823 | 976 | 979 | +38 |
| Poultrymeat | 1233 | 1249 | 1578 | 1590 | 1799 | +46 |
| Eggs | 362 | 410 | 520 | 531 | 561 | +55 |
| Milk | 2497 | 2823 | 3447 | 3124 | 3325 | +33 |
| Volume of production (thousand tonnes unless otherwise stated) | ||||||
| 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | Percentage change 2006 to 2010 | |
| Beef and veal | 852 | 888 | 866 | 823 | 898 | +5 |
| Pigmeat | 667 | 707 | 706 | 681 | 712 | +7 |
| Mutton and Lamb | 334 | 329 | 332 | 313 | 287 | -14 |
| Poultrymeat | 1511 | 1464 | 1462 | 1457 | 1573 | +4 |
| Eggs (million dozen) | 852 | 831 | 867 | 869 | 950 | +11 |
| Milk (million litres) | 13711 | 13442 | 13145 | 13004 | 13331 | -3 |
The percentage increase in the value of production is greater than that for volume of production as a result of increased prices in livestock commodities over the period.