Pigs: Republic of Ireland

(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 (a) imported and (b) exported between the UK and the Republic of Ireland in each year between 2012 and 2017.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 9th May 2018

The number of live pigs exported to the Republic of Ireland between the years 2012 and 2017 are as follows:

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

6278

15008

12114

13139

8973

8917

The number of live pigs imported from the Republic of Ireland to the United Kingdom between the years 2012 and 2017 are as follows:

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

683684

675279

618635

601895

457516

444450

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.

The information that we have provided is a true reflection of the information that we have access to, and was correct at the time the information was obtained from TRACES. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of this data, as we can only rely on the information that has been input into TRACES by a third party.

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