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 dairy herd in the (a) Yorkshire and Humber region and (b) UK in each of the last three years.

Estimates of the size of the dairy breeding herd 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 dairy breeding cows on farms on 1 June each year (thousands):

Source: Cattle Tracing Scheme/Defra June Survey of Agriculture