§ Mrs. Helen JacksonTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his answer of 10 March,Official Report, column 49, if he will list the rendering plants and companies which have received financial assistance under the rendering industry support scheme 1996; and how much was paid to each. [21187]
§ Mr. BaldryIn 1996, 18 rendering companies received support under the rendering industry support scheme 1996, which covers the period 1 April 1996 to 31 March722W species in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [21114]
§ Mrs. BrowningThe Zoonoses Order 1989 requires that all isolations of salmonella from farm animals and poultry are reported. Incidents reported to this Department over the last five years are:
1997. Since January 1997, the number of companies in receipt of support has increased by four bringing the total to 22.
The companies and the locations of the plants concerned are:
Company Location A. Hughes & Son (Skellingthorpe) Ltd. Skellingthorpe A. & W. Chambers Ltd. Huddersfield Anglo Beef Processors Ltd. Newry Shrewsbury Canterbury Mills Ltd. Canterbury Croda Colloids Ltd. Market Harborough Duncrue Food Processors Ltd. Belfast Dundas Brothers Ltd. Inverurie Dundas Chemical Company (Mosspark) Ltd. Dumfries Fats and Proteins (UK) Ltd. Lancaster Foyle Meats Ltd. Londonderry Gilberts Animal By-Products Ltd. Cheddleton J. F. Rockett & Sons Ltd. Huddersfield Lisburn Proteins Ltd. Lisburn Lloyd Maunder Ltd. Cullompton Mcintosh Donald Ltd. Aberdeen Mid Ulster Proteins Ltd. Craigavon P. Waddington & Co. Ltd. Bradford Prosper de Mulder Ltd. Doncaster Exeter Nuneaton Silvertown Widnes Peninsular Proteins Ltd. Torrington Smith Brothers (Hyde) Ltd. Hyde Ulster Farm By-Products Ltd. Crumlin William Forrest and Son (Paisley) Ltd. Motherwell Support under the scheme is paid on a four-weekly basis. As at 19 March payments totalling about £82 million had been authorised.
I am unable to disclose information about support paid to individual renderers for reasons of their commercial confidentiality—exemption 13 in the code of practice on access to Government information.
§ Mrs. JacksonTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his answer of 10 March,Official Report, columns 49–50, if he will list the rendering plants and companies contracted by his Department to render (a) specified bovine material and (b) cattle carcases. [20958]
§ Mr. Baldry[holding answer 18 March 1997]: Of the plants approved to render cattle by-products in Great Britain, the following are currently contracted to the Intervention Board executive agency to process 723W over-30-month scheme cattle carcases, including their specified bovine material, in rendering lines licensed under the Specified Bovine Material Order 1996 (as amended):
- Canterbury Mills Ltd., Canterbury
- Dundas Brothers Ltd., Kintore
- Fats and Proteins (UK) Ltd., Lancaster
- Gilberts Animal By-Products, Leek
- Granox Ltd., Widnes
- J. G. Pears (Newark) Ltd.
- J. L. Thomas Ltd., Exeter
- Peninsular Proteins Ltd., Torrington
- William Forrest and Sons (Paisley Ltd.), Motherwell.