§ 28. Lieut.-Colonel Heneageasked the Minister of Supply what action the county boroughs of Grimsby, Lincoln, Nottingham, and Leicester are taking to produce livestock feeding-stuffs or swill from waste products?
§ The Minister of Supply (Mr. Burgin)According to the information available in my Department, the action taken by the county boroughs in question is as follows:
The Nottingham Corporation collect swill from military kitchens in their area and sell it to local farmers. They do not collect swill from domestic kitchen waste, but the farmers themselves collect from hotels and restaurants in the borough. Condemned meat and fish waste is collected by a firm who manufacture feeding meals and fertilisers.
The Grimsby and Leicester borough councils keep their own pigs, and feed to them kitchen waste; apart from this, no special collection of kitchen waste is made in either borough, but Leicester utilise condemned meat for the manufacture of meat and bone meal.
The Lincoln council, so far as the records of my Department show, are not collecting feeding stuffs or swill.
§ Lieut.-Colonel HeneageWill the right hon. Gentleman do all in his power to increase the output of feeding-stuffs from waste products in those counties where there is at present a shortage of feeding-stuffs for livestock?
§ Mr. BurginYes, Sir, and the publicity which is being given to this matter is greatly facilitating that task.