House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 14 Oct 2009 (pt 0010)

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Departmental Recycling

Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what proportion of his Department's waste was recycled in the latest period for which figures are available. [289664]

Dan Norris: The latest available figures show the following percentages of waste were recycled and recovered in 2007-08:

	Percentage
Recycled (recycled, composted, reused externally)	29
Recovered (recycled, composted, reused externally, incinerated with energy recovery)	60

It should be noted that DEFRA incinerates approximately 30 per cent. of its waste, from which significant quantity of heat and energy is recovered. Current Sustainable Development Commission reporting does not acknowledge energy recovery from waste incineration as recycling or waste recovery under current Sustainable Operations on the Government Estate (SOGE) guidelines.

Food: Production

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the proportion of food consumed nationwide which was produced domestically in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [291925]

Jim Fitzpatrick: The following table provides the answer to this question.

Percentage of food produced in the UK which is consumed in the UK
	Percentage
1997	58
1998	56
1999	57
2000	56
2001	56
2002	54
2003	53
2004	53
2005	50
2006	49
2007	50
2008	⁽¹⁾53
⁽¹⁾ Provisional. Note: This should not be confused with the measure of UK Self-Sufficiency in all Food, which in 2008 was 60 per cent. (provisional figure), since self sufficiency shows the percentage of all UK food production, including UK exports, as a percentage of consumption. Both measures are based on the value of unprocessed food.

Forests

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the area of commercial woodland and forestry in England that is owned by (a) Forest Enterprise and (b) private landowners and public limited companies. [291914]

Huw Irranca-Davies: The information is not held in that format by the Forestry Commission. The "National Inventory of Woodland and Trees" published in 2001 included information on ownership type for woodland areas of 2.0 hectares or more. This is given in the following table.

Ownership type	Area (hectares)
Personal	480,794
Business	146,601
Forestry or timber business	7,200
Charity	68,484
Local authority	61,098
Other public (not Forestry Commission)	27,302
Forestry Commission	222,694
Community ownership or common land	3,732
Unidentified	3,917
Total	1,021,822

Foxes

Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the estimated number of foxes in each county in England was in each of the last 10 years. [291955]

Huw Irranca-Davies: DEFRA does not carry out annual surveys of fox numbers by county and is not aware of any measures of absolute numbers of red fox ('Vulpes vulpes') per county.

However, information on game bags (foxes taken e.g. by shooting) is provided by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's national gamebag census. The analysis of mammal data from this annual survey is funded by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee as part of its surveillance programme. It provides an index of bag density for this species at a UK, country and regional scale and can be used to indicate what the population trend might be. The gamebag data for foxes over the last 10 years fluctuates, but the overall trend appears to be stable or slightly increasing.

The results of this scheme are available in a report entitled "Participation of the National Gamebag Census in the Mammal Surveillance Network". A copy of this has been placed in the House Library.

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Hill Livestock Allowances

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the average age of a farmer receiving the hill farm allowance was in each year since the introduction of the allowance. [291922]

Huw Irranca-Davies: The Rural Payments Agency does not keep records concerning the age of applicants under the Hill Farm Allowance scheme.

Meat: Imports

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the (a)
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volume and (b) monetary value of each meat product imported from (i) Argentina, (ii) Botswana, (iii) Brazil, (iv) China, (v) Democratic Republic of Congo, (vi) Ecuador, (vii) Egypt, (viii) Israel, (ix) the Palestinian Autonomous Territories, (x) Russia, (xi) South Africa, (xii) Turkey and (xiii) Vietnam was in each of the last five years. [291909]

Jim Fitzpatrick: The following table provides details of imports of meat and meat products from the specified countries, as recorded in the Official Overseas Trade Statistics, for the period 2004-08.

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UK imports of meat and meat products from selected countries for 2004 to 2008
			2004		2005		2006
Country	Type	Cut	£000	Tonnes	£000	Tonnes	£000	Tonnes
Argentina	Beef	Boneless	24,188	8,641	28,413	9,226	20,299	5,128
		Edible offal	165	169	376	265	98	57
		Meat and offal (other than liver) inc. corned beef	11,259	8,931	10,164	7,309	8,212	4,906
		Other cuts with bone in	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	16	11	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
	Chicken	Bone in	67	66	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
		Boneless	1,306	1,015	1,782	1,276	1,322	997
		Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	24	14	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	71	50
		Whole	148	249	350	485	148	228
	Goat	Carcases and half carcases	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
	Lamb	Boneless	297	180	1,066	515	1,108	696
		Carcases and half carcases	2,285	1,496	2,012	1,233	337	227
	Other (not elsewhere stated)	Meat	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
	Sheep	Bone in	54	42	69	34	562	275
		Boneless	36	24	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
	Sheep and goat	Edible offal	3	8	65	107	57	76

Botswana	Beef	Boneless	15,422	4,848	11,351	3,461	8,317	2,380
		Meat and offal (other than liver) inc. corned beef	506	285	376	201	538	235

Brazil	Beef	Boneless	60,783	34,588	59,134	32,120	68,290	28,340
		Carcases and half carcases	22	23	32	23	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
		Edible offal	324	331	323	339	163	163
		Meat and offal (other than liver) inc. corned beef	72,984	58,677	73,581	53,237	77,097	50,305
		Other cuts with bone in	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	93	33	16	12
	Chicken	Bone in	7	12
		Boneless	46,060	34,891	59,759	48,194	24,158	16,846
		Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	9,445	6,148	14,087	10,224	13,540	9,324
		Whole	2,674	4,674	1,902	2,822	1,677	2,711
	Homogenised preparations	Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
	Lamb	Boneless	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
		Carcases and half carcases	30	17	14	17	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
	Other (not elsewhere stated)	Edible offal	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-		⁽¹⁾-	29	24
		Meat	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	6,957	5,672
		Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
	Poultry	Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	2	1
	Sheep	Bone in	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
	Sheep and goat	Edible offal	73	63	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
	Turkey	Bone in	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	29	19
		Boneless	452	324	220	144	161	117
		Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	5,451	4,233	1,063	863	138	96

China	Beef	Meat and offal (other than liver) inc. corned beef	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
	Chicken	Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	160	109	30	19
	Lamb	Boneless	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	20	4	30	13
	Poultry	Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	62	18	54	22
	Sheep	Bone in	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	73	20	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-

Egypt	Sheep and goat	Edible offal	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	6	6

Israel	Chicken	Bone in	45	17	22	9	25	7
		Boneless	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
		Edible offal	1	0	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
		Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	69	20	53	15	35	8
	Other (not elsewhere stated)	Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	2	1
	Poultry	Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	59	7	42	3	93	6
	Sausages and similar products	Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	23	7	11	3	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
	Turkey	Bone in	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
		Boneless	180	97	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	21	9
		Edible offal	1	1	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
		Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	584	278	107	32	48	16
		Whole	1	1	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-

South Africa	Beef	Boneless	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
		Meat and offal (other than liver) inc. corned beef	519	388	399	254	197	118
	Chicken	Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	42	19
	Duck, goose and guinea fowl	Bone in	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
	Game (not elsewhere stated)	Meat and edible meat offal	95	31	69	16	58	15
	Game or rabbit	Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
	Other (not elsewhere stated)	Meat and edible meat offal	62	15	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
		Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
	Poultry	Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	7	4	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
	Sheep	Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-

Turkey	Beef	Boneless	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	4	1
		Meat and offal (other than liver) inc. corned beef	155	160	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
	Chicken	Boneless	38	13	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
	Pig	Meat	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	9	6	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
	Sausages and similar products	Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-

Vietnam	Chicken	Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	30	20
	Frogs' legs	Meat and edible meat offal	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	23	9	10	4
	Poultry	Prepared or preserved meat, offal or blood	9	2	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-
	Reptiles	Meat and edible meat offal	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-	⁽¹⁾-

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