PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Fisheries: Antibiotics (3 July 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of trends in the use of antibiotics in the UK fisheries sector in the last five years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by:
Dame Angela Eagle (Labour)

Over the last five years, the amount of active ingredient of antibiotic sold for use in fish-only has oscillated around an average of 1.5 tonnes and, in 2016, represented less than 0.5% of antibiotics sold for use in animals.

	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Tonnes	2.1	0.8	2.4	0.7	1.6

Answered by:
George Eustice (Conservative)
6 July 2018