§ 32. Mr. John Carlisleasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has any estimate of the level of third country substitute feedstuffs now being used by the animal feedstuff compounding industry.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithI assume my hon. friend is referring to products, such as manioc, citrus pulp amd maize starch by-products, which have not traditionally been imported into the United Kingdom in any significant quantity.
The quantity of these products imported from third countries during September-December 1981—the latest period for which figures are available—was 426,000 tonnes. If imports continued at that rate, the total in a full year would be about 1.25 million tonnes, equivalent to some 7 per cent. of all concentrated animal feeding stuffs.