The report from Climate Assembly UK, The Path to Net Zero, will be debated in the House of Commons on 26 September 2020. Climate Assembly UK was jointly commissioned by six Parliamentary Select Committees in 2019 to answer the question of how the UK should meet its target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
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UK Dairy Industry Statistics (730 KB, PDF)
This briefing paper sets out key statistics and current trends for the UK dairy industry:
- The UK is the eleventh-largest milk producer in the world.
- Milk accounted for 16.9% of total agricultural output in the UK in 2018 and was worth £4.5bn in market prices.
- The total number of UK dairy cows has fallen from 2.6 million in 1996 to 1.9 million in 2018, a 27% reduction.
- The UK produced 15.0 billion litres of milk in 2018, the highest annual figure since 1990.
- In 2019, the UK recorded a trade surplus in volume terms for dairy for the first time since records began (1997).
- In 2018, the UK had a negative trade balance in butter and cheese, but a positive trade balance in milk and cream.
- Farm-gate milk prices for August 2019 were 28.6 pence per litre, up from a low of 21.5 ppl in August 2016. In February 2020, the farm-gate price was 28.6 ppl.
- Between 1995 and today, doorstep delivery has declined from 45% to 3% of the retail milk market.
- Supply chains were disrupted following the lockdown imposed to suppress the coronavirus outbreak in March 2020.
Documents to download
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UK Dairy Industry Statistics (730 KB, PDF)
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