Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 6 March 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the percentage of (a) meat, (b) eggs, (c) bread, (d) wheat, (e) fruit, (f) vegetables and (g) milk consumed which was produced domestically in each year since 1997.
Estimates of the percentage of meat, eggs, fruit, vegetables and milk consumed and which were produced domestically are provided in table 1. These figures are based on volumes of production and trade.
This information is not available for bread production. However data on the tonnage of wheat grain used for milling and the proportion of wheat grain that is home grown is collected and is shown in table 2. This is also based on volumes but is for the crop year rather than calendar year. The grain will be milled into flour for a range of purposes including bread, biscuits and cakes. It is not possible to provide information that distinguishes home grown wheat grain milled for bread flour.
Table 1: Estimate of the percentage consumed from domestic production for various commodities | |||||||||||
1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | |
Meat | 75 | 76 | 74 | 72 | 72 | 69 | 67 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 65 |
Liquid drinking milk | 98 | 97 | 98 | 98 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 |
Eggs | 92 | 94 | 93 | 89 | 88 | 85 | 82 | 83 | 85 | 81 | 77 |
Wheat | 91 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 88 | 91 | 91 | 94 | 91 | 92 | 90 |
Fruit | 8 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
Vegetables | 63 | 69 | 69 | 69 | 65 | 61 | 60 | 59 | 57 | 57 | 55 |
Table 2: Estimate for the percentage of home grown wheat grain milled into flour for bread, cake, biscuit and other uses | |
Percentage | |
1996-97 | 87 |
1997-98 | 81 |
1998-99 | 82 |
1999-2000 | 83 |
2000-01 | 84 |
2001-02 | 83 |
2002-03 | 84 |
2003-04 | 86 |
2004-05 | 83 |
2005-06 | 84 |
2006-07 | 85 |
2007-08 | 79 |
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