Deer
(asked on 7th July 2015) - 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 people are employed in jobs relating to deer farming and hunting; and if she will estimate how many people participate in deer shooting.
This question was answered on 13th July 2015
Defra does not hold such information, nor has it made any recent estimates.
Published sources estimate that there are over one and a half million wild deer in the UK, of which 350,000 are culled each year by over 100,000 deer stalkers. The industry claims that around 2,500 jobs are provided by deer management. There are a further 32,000 deer on farms in the UK.