Meat and Bone Meal Fertilisers (Hansard, 2 July 1996)

HC Deb 02 July 1996 vol 280 c422W 422W

§ Mr. Gordon Prentice
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what estimate he has made of the quantity of mammalian meat and bone meal fertilisers spread on land since August 1988. [31196]

§ Mrs. Browning
The information is not collected centrally. An industry estimate of the quantity of mammalian meat and bone meal fertilisers used is 4,000 tonnes per year, of which 10 per cent. was spread on agricultural land.