HC Deb 16 January 2003 vol 397 c740W
Andrew George

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which companies her Department has contracts with for the incineration of tallow produced under the over-thirty-months scheme; and when those contracts were(a) agreed and (b) signed. [90844]

Alun Michael

9 companies have been awarded contracts for the incineration of tallow arisings produced under the Over Thirty Month Scheme. The companies and dates of contracts awarded are as follows:

Company Date
Gilberts Animal Feed (now John Pointon & Sons) 17 December 1996
Prosper De Mulder 6 February 1997
J. G. Pears 12 February 1997
Dundas Brothers 9 May 1997
Lisburn Proteins 5 July 1997
Canterbury Mills 5 January 1998
William Forrest & Son 5 January 1998
Dundas Chemical Company 5 December 2000
Ulster Farm by Products 25 November 2002