To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will now ban the use of those offals specified in the bovine offals order in (a) pet food and (b) feed for pigs and poultry.

I am considering the recommendation by the Select Committee on Agriculture of a statutory ban on the use of these materials in pet food. In doing so I will need to bear in mind whether there is any scientific evidence for such action.There is no evidence to support banning the use of these materials in pig and poultry feed.

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is his policy in respect of disposal of those cattle offals banned for use for human consumption which are not held in storage by the rendering industry.

I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr. Davies) on 7 December 1989, (Official Report, column 374).