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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much cattle feed has been imported to the UK in the last five years; what proportion of the total amount was soya products; and from which countries those imports came.

According to HMRC trade data, the UK imported 28 million tonnes of animal feed[1] from 94 countries over the last five years (2011-2015). Approximately one third of these imports were soya based.

The top ten countries accounted for approximately four fifths of these imports:

1. Argentina
2. Netherlands
3. U.S.A.
4. Irish Republic
5. France
6. Indonesia
7. Brazil
8. Germany
9. Malaysia

Ukraine

[1] HMRC trade data does not separately identify imports of cattle feed. Therefore these figures relate to imports of all animal feed.