Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 5 March 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many (a) unweaned calves, (b) cattle, (c) sheep and (d) other livestock species were exported for (i) further fattening and (ii) slaughter in 2009.
Statistics on numbers of animals consigned for export from Great Britain are not routinely collated (although numbers of export consignments are). Nor are statistics collated on whether consignments are for breeding, further fattening or slaughter, or numbers of weaned or unweaned calves.
Information for trade within the European Union is currently being sought through the European Commission. However, the system used to access this has been unavailable since
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