§ Mr. LidingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) when she intends to publish details of the National Collection Scheme for fallen stock; [80450]
(2) what estimate she has made of how many fallen (a) cattle, (b) sheep and (c) pigs were disposed of last year by hunt kennels. [80451]
§ Margaret BeckettSince April 2002, officials have been holding discussions with livestock and disposal industry stakeholders with the aim of developing a national fallen stock disposal scheme. However, it is for the industries concerned to work out how best to deal with their waste problems and to publish details of their proposal.
We do not have figures for the amount of fallen stock that hunt kennels have collected in the last year.