Lincolnshire Voice

As an Inquiry into the collapse of a Lincoln Dairy in Boultham begins and the 127 subsequent job losses (here) we reveal the level of milk imports to the UK:

Albert Owen (Ynys Môn, Labour) 14th May 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many litres of liquid milk were imported into the UK from (a) Ireland, (b) EU member states and (c) other countries in the latest period for which figures are available.

Jane Kennedy (Minister of State (Farming and the Environment), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Liverpool, Wavertree, Labour)

Liquid milk imports are shown in the following tables. Liquid milk is imported into the UK in two forms, as raw milk for processing by dairies in the UK, or as liquid drinking milk (e.g. pasteurised or UHT milk).

Imports of raw milk for processing into the UK—2008

Irish Republic 41.3 (Million litres)

Source:

DARDNI

Liquid drinking milk is imported mainly from the Republic of Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, France and Germany. There were no recorded imports of liquid milk from Non-EU countries during 2008.

Imports of liquid drinking milk into the UK from the EU—2008

Irish Republic 54.4 (Million litres)
Belgium 27.4
Netherlands 21.6
France 17.2
Germany 12.8
Other EU countries 0.6

Total UK imports from EU countries 134.1 (Million litres)
Source:

HMRC

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