What the available quota in the Southern Isles milk quota ring fence area has been in litres in each year since 1999 and, of this, how much…

Answered Asked by Jim Mather SNP Lodged 9 Jan 2007

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive what the available quota in the Southern Isles milk quota ring fence area has been in litres in each year since 1999 and, of this, how much has been unused by producers.

The answer

Answered by Ross Finnie on 18 Jan 2007 · 9 days after it was lodged, on time

Information on milk quota utilisationis collected by the Rural Payments Agency. Details of the net quota held and unusedquota by producers in the Southern Isles ring fence area since 2003-04 is set outin the following table. Figures are not available for previous years as milk purchaserswere not required to supply the RPA with this information.

Quota Year

| Net Quota Held
by Producers
(Million Litres)
| Net Unused
Quota
(Million Litres)

2003-04
| 53,750,581
| 2,169,168

2004-05
| 60,020,230
| 8,121,076

2005-06
| 54,308,949
| 1,295,359

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S2W-30843 by reference.