Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many live young calves were exported from the UK in each of the last five years; and to which destinations.
Answer
No cattle were exported before May 2006 due to the EU BSE related ban. This ban was lifted on 3 May 2006.The number of cows exported in 2006, from the UK to the EU, is set out in the table. Romania was the only country outside the EU to which cattle were exported during 2006; they joined the EU on 1 January 2007.Data are available only for cattle as the data source does not differentiate between calves and adult cattle.
| Destination country | Number of cows exported in 2006 |
| Netherlands | 82,612 |
| Belgium | 28,626 |
| France | 9,237 |
| Italy | 2,706 |
| Spain | 20,937 |
| Ireland | 7,542 |
| Hungary | 250 |
| Estonia | 94 |
| Poland | 85 |
| Germany | 79 |
| Greece | 63 |
| Denmark | 16 |
| Romania | 45 |