MPs were shocked to hear evidence that salmon companies sent 5,000 tonnes of fish into the EU in January but HMRC recorded exports of only 80 tonnes for the period.
Hamish Macdonell, of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation, told MPs that the export figures for Scottish salmon published by HMRC were off by 97 per cent.
He told the Commons Scottish Affairs Committee: “There is a real issue over the validity of the export stats which have been put out by HMRC.
The figures for January are not just wrong, they are very wrong.”“It is very difficult I think for you as the committee, and for anybody else really to assess the impact of Brexit, when we don’t have a proper baseline of stats.”Macdonell said that around 5000 tonnes of Scottish.
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