§ Mr. KirkwoodTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1) if he will list the amount by weight of offal disposed of in the BSE subsidised offal scheme in(a) 1996–97 and (b) 1997–98, together with the weight of offal disposed during each of the financial years 1991 to 1995–96; [20267]
680W(2) if he will list by weight the amount of offal disposed of via the BSE subsidised offal scheme in 1996–97 and 1997–98, and the weight of offal disposed of during the financial years 1991–92 and 1995–96. [20272]
§ Mr. RookerApproximately 957,000 tonnes of clean offal (that is excluding Specified Bovine Material and Over Thirty Months Scheme material) was processed under the Rendering Industry Support Scheme 1996 in 1996–97. There is no equivalent figure for clean offal processed under the 1997–98 Scheme since this is based on outputs of meat and bone meal (MBM) and tallow. Some 227,000 tonnes of MBM and tallow has been processed to date under the Rendering Industry Support Scheme 1997.
Approximately 1.1 million tonnes of clean offals were processed by the rendering industry in 1995–96. We do not have figures for the tonnages processed in 1991–92.