§ Mr. DrewTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will review the controls on the materials that hunts may feed their animals, with particular reference to specified risk material. [123137]
§ Ms Quin[holding answer 22 May 2000]: Specified risk material (SRM) may not be fed to animals. EU-wide specified risk material controls are currently being considered in the Standing Veterinary Committee of the Commission. Any redefinition of SRM is unlikely to result in an exemption to enable SRM to be fed to hounds.
§ Mr. DrewTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish the advice his Department offers to hunts on the dead stock that can be fed to packs of hounds. [123168]
§ Ms Quin[holding answer 22 May 2000]: In Great Britain the rules governing the feeding of animal by-products (which includes dead stock) to packs of hounds are laid down in the Animal By-Products Order 1999. The Order permits only certain categories of material to be fed to recognised packs of hounds in registered premises.