Pigs: Exports

(asked on 24th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many live pigs were exported by each country of export destination in each year between 2012 and 2017.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 4th May 2018

The number of live pigs exported from the UK between the years 2012 and 2017 and their export destination countries are as follows:

Country Of Destination

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

Austria

0

0

0

0

8

0

Barbados*

0

8

Belgium

319

9

52

949

1213

1204

Bulgaria

0

40

255

3

142

26

Croatia**

0

53

0

0

0

Cyprus

0

0

0

40

16

0

Czech Republic

3

0

10

1

19

0

Denmark

0

64

23

5

0

0

Finland

2

0

0

0

0

0

France

52

244

97

55

62

4

FYR Macedonia*

0

44

Germany

150

57

20

0

50

41

Ghana*

0

8

Greece

0

37

0

0

0

57

Hungary

15

120

32

11

12

0

Italy

5

0

1171

15

19

968

Japan*

23

0

Lithuania

56

255

27

39

34

0

Malta

529

0

123

0

121

0

Nigeria*

54

0

Poland

0

39

0

16

0

22

Portugal

0

0

0

0

0

2

Romania

50

0

968

0

0

0

Spain

653

1481

513

197

3

0

Sweden

0

0

0

2

0

13

Switzerland

0

2

0

0

0

8

The Netherlands

14

18

42

40

0

18

United States*

12

19

* APHA’s data retention period for non-EU countries Export Health Certification is two years.

**Croatia became a member of the EU on 1 July 2013. No data is available for exports to Croatia in 2012 and from the 1 January to 30 June 2013 as this information is outside APHA’s data retention period.

This excludes data for Republic of Ireland.

The statistics provided for EU Member States show the number of live pigs exported from the United Kingdom in the years 2012 – 2017. TRACES (Trade Control and Expert System) is a European Commission system employed by EU member states to facilitate and record animal/animal product movements into and throughout the EU. This information was provided to APHA by the EU Commission’s DG Sante TRACES Helpdesk due to the unavailability of the TRACES reporting functions.

The statistics provided for non-EU countries, denoted by an asterisk, show the number of live pigs exported from Great Britain to non-EU countries. This information has been collated from APHA’s data records. APHA’s data retention period for Export Health Certification is two years, so the information displayed above is for the years 2016 and 2017 only.

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