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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the size of the pig stock in the (a) Yorkshire and Humber region and (b) UK in each of the last three years.

Estimates of the number of pigs on farms are provided in the table below. Regional estimates are only calculated every 3 years. The latest available estimates are presented here.

Table 1: Number of pigs on farms on 1 June each year (thousands):

Source: Defra June Survey of Agriculture