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Departments: Catering

Volume 463: debated on Monday 3 September 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of (a) beef, (b) sheep meat, (c) pork and (d) dairy products used in his Department in the most recent period for which figures are available were imported products. (150796)

[holding answer 19 July 2007]: Work is currently under way to enable the collection of this information from central Government Departments that will include the proportion of (a) beef, (b) sheep meat, (c) pork and dairy products, that are produced domestically. I understand that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs will tell the House when this information is deposited in the Library.