Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their current estimate of the size of the UK dairy herd.
The UK dairy herd was 1.87 million head as at 1 June 2019. Dairy herd is defined as female dairy cows aged two years and over with offspring.
(Source: Cattle Tracing System (CTS) in England, Wales and Scotland and the equivalent APHIS system in Northern Ireland)