Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many pigs were slaughtered in (a) the UK, (b) England, (c) Wales, (d) Scotland and (e) Northern Ireland in each month of the last three years.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is responsible for delivering Official Controls in abattoirs in England and Wales. Official Controls in Northern Ireland are delivered by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs on behalf of the FSA. We are unable to provide the information requested for Scotland as this is a matter for Food Standards Scotland.
The following table shows the number of pigs slaughtered in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Totals | Date | England | Wales | Northern Ireland | United Kingdom total excluding Scotland |
Year Total: October to December 2018 | 2018 | 2,258,502 | 7,814 | 441,823 | 2,708,139 |
| October | 803,768 | 2,726 | 178,572 | 985,066 |
| November | 788,112 | 2,443 | 144,337 | 934,892 |
| December | 666,622 | 2,645 | 118,914 | 788,181 |
Year total for January to December 2019 | 2019 | 8,912,967 | 28,586 | 1,787,680 | 1,072,9233 |
| January | 768,372 | 2,090 | 174,284 | 944,746 |
| February | 682,008 | 1,941 | 140,191 | 824,140 |
| March | 699,843 | 2,187 | 133,646 | 835,676 |
| April | 752,207 | 2,477 | 162,470 | 917,154 |
| May | 750,741 | 2,048 | 124,842 | 877,631 |
| June | 658,189 | 2,319 | 127,991 | 788,499 |
| July | 770,109 | 2,689 | 162,514 | 935,312 |
| August | 749,714 | 2,367 | 147,700 | 989,781 |
| September | 736,300 | 2,662 | 146,307 | 885,269 |
| October | 821,708 | 2,485 | 185,220 | 1,009,413 |
| November | 786,061 | 2,659 | 149,850 | 938,570 |
| December | 737,715 | 2,662 | 132,665 | 873,042 |
Year total for January to December 2020 | 2020 | 9,070,908 | 27,198 | 1,437,233 | 10,535,339 |
| January | 784,512 | 2,200 | 180,140 | 966,852 |
| February | 695,637 | 2,043 | 140,442 | 838,122 |
| March | 781,534 | 2,437 | 146,904 | 930,875 |
| April | 739,660 | 1,845 | 120,979 | 862,484 |
| May | 693,445 | 1,946 | 85,876 | 781,267 |
| June | 742,557 | 2,302 | 98,814 | 843,673 |
| July | 784,037 | 2,153 | 121,388 | 907,578 |
| August | 708,665 | 2,357 | 103,208 | 814,230 |
| September | 802,330 | 2,685 | 102,606 | 907,621 |
| October | 797,837 | 2,421 | 134,188 | 934,446 |
| November | 760,353 | 2,673 | 109,150 | 872,176 |
| December | 780,341 | 2,136 | 93,538 | 876,015 |
Year total for January to September 2021 | 2021 | 6,913,392 | 20,809 | 1,334,352 | 8,268,553 |
| January | 721,631 | 2,077 | 126,182 | 849,890 |
| February | 753,014 | 2,125 | 103,382 | 858,521 |
| March | 861,074 | 2,537 | 150,397 | 1,014,008 |
| April | 784,809 | 2,024 | 187,611 | 974,444 |
| May | 744,365 | 2,090 | 147,534 | 891,989 |
| June | 781,702 | 2,560 | 148,433 | 932,695 |
| July | 756,250 | 2,183 | 177,362 | 935,795 |
| August | 765,519 | 2,687 | 146,557 | 914,763 |
| September | 745,028 | 2,526 | 146,894 | 894,448 |