Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many dairy producers in England and Wales were registered with the Food Standards Agency in (1) 2014, (2) 2015, (3) 2016, (4) 2017, (5) 2018, and (6) 2019.
As at 1 April for each of the specified years, the number of milk production holdings registered by the Food Standards Agency is shown in the following table.
Date | Number of Registered Milk Production Holdings |
1 April 2014 | 10,362 |
1 April 2015 | 9,866 |
1 April 2016 | 9,585 |
1 April 2017 | 9,444 |
1 April 2018 | 9,356 |
1 April 2019 | 8,889 |