§ Mr. CouchmanTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what arrangements he is making for the disposal of surplus stocks of animal feed containing mammalian meat and bone meal following the recent ban on feeding mammalian meat and bone meal to farm livestock. [32479]
§ Mrs. BrowningThe Government have today sent a letter to all livestock farmers, feed merchants and feed compounders in the United Kingdom offering to fund the collection and disposal of any residual stocks of MBM or feed containing MBM. Thereafter, after consultation with the appropriate organisations, an order will be laid to make it illegal to have MBM, or feed containing MBM, on farms or in the premises of feed merchants or at feed mills.
Parliamentary approval of this new service will be sought in a supplementary estimate for class III, vote 2—Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: operational expenditure, agencies and departmental administration. Pending that approval, urgent expenditure estimated at £6 million will be met by repayable advances from the contingencies fund.
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