§ Mr. KeyTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the countries from which the supply of(a) beef and (b) sheepmeat were sourced for each year that the NAAFI held the Ministry of Defence's public-funded messing contract. [28348]
§ Mr. Spellar[pursuant to his reply, 9 February 1998, c. 67]: I regret the answer given was incorrect because some information is held by NAAFI although not by individual years. They have advised that approximately 30 per cent. of beef by volume was sourced from the UK with some 70 per cent. from overseas mainly from Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, New Zealand and Australia. All lamb was sourced from overseas with approximately 70 per cent. of volume coming from New Zealand.