Official Statistics

Latest statistics on milk utilisation by dairies - official statistics

Monthly official statistics on the volume of milk used by dairies.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 8 June 2017
• Last updated: 4 May 2022
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  1. 4 May 2022

     Updated with links to the replacement publication.

  2. 11 January 2018

     Removed distribution of industry and milk utilisationd dataset as published on "Latest statistics on milk utilisation by dairies - national statistics".

  3. 15 December 2017

     Updated with supplies of milk products dataset for Q3 2017.

  4. 7 December 2017

     Updated with statistical notice and dataset for October 2017.

  5. 4 December 2017

     Added dataset, data for Q2 2017.

  6. 9 November 2017

     Added statistical notice and dataset, data up to September 2017.

  7. 5 October 2017

     Updated with August 2017 data, statistical notice and dataset.

  8. 7 September 2017

     Updated with July 2017 data, statistical notice and dataset.

  9. 10 August 2017

     New updated statistical notice.

  10. 6 July 2017

      Minor adjustment to liquid milk data.

  11. 6 July 2017

      Updated with May 2017 statistical notice and dataset.

  12. 23 June 2017

      Updated milk supplies dataset to include Q1 2017.

  13. 8 June 2017

      First published.

Documents

Milk utilisation – official statistics notice (data to October 2017)

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Details

Please note that this Official Statistics publication is no longer updated. Latest statistics on milk utilisation by dairies - national statistics replaced this publication in 2017. Historical publications can be accessed in Milk utilisation by dairies.

This monthly official statistics notice includes information on the volume of milk used by dairies in England and Wales in the production of drinking milk and milk products. The monthly official statistics on the use of milk by dairies in England and Wales are combined with similar information from Scotland and Northern Ireland to produce a dataset for the UK as a whole. This gives UK milk availability and disposals and the production of liquid drinking milk and milk products such as cheese, butter and milk powders.

Additional information

UK supplies of milk products

Production and overseas trade are brought together in the quarterly milk product supplies dataset. This provides information on how much butter, cheese, cream, condensed milk and milk powders is available for use in the UK, and gives a measure of UK self-sufficiency for these products.

Due to significant revisions to Northern Ireland data for 2016, the quarterly supplies dataset has been re-issued to maintain comparability with the monthly production data.

Structure of the UK dairy industry

Tables showing the size and structure of the UK dairy industry, both in terms of the number of enterprises producing milk products and also in terms of the volumes of production of milk, butter and cheese can be found here.

Important usage information

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Next update: see the statistics release calendar

For further information please contact:
Julie.Rumsey@defra.gsi.gov.uk
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