Results 1-20 of 164 for horsemeat

Business and Society — Question for Short Debate (12 June 2013)

Viscount Younger of Leckie: ...will be published in December this year. I believe that it was my noble friend Lady Bottomley who raised the issue of ethical supply chains, as did my noble friend Lord Kalms. The Bangladeshi factory crisis and the horsemeat scandal illustrate the importance of promoting ethical and responsible supply chains. The Government are encouraging businesses to value and develop responsible supply...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Food: Industry (10 June 2013)

David Heath: ...'s planned Agri-Tech Strategy; innovation and new technology, including GM; reform of the Common Agricultural Policy sugar regime; changes to food labelling legislation and the response to the horsemeat fraud incident. In addition there will have been a significant number of routine meetings at official level with a range of trade associations representing food producers and individual...

Written Answers — Health: Meat Products: Labelling (10 June 2013)

Anna Soubry: ...or trading standards departments. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the police, working with their counterparts across Europe, are involved in a complicated and far-reaching investigation into horsemeat. At this stage, it cannot be confirmed if prosecutions will result from this ongoing action. The FSA will be in contact with those LAs known to be involved in investigation work to find...

Written Ministerial Statements — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Food Supply Networks (4 June 2013)

Owen Paterson: ...Chris Elliott, of Queen’s University Belfast, to lead an independent review into the integrity and assurance of food supply networks in response to the vulnerabilities recently exposed by horsemeat fraud. I am pleased that he has accepted, subject to the necessary formalities being concluded with Queen’s University Belfast. On 15 April 2013, Official Report, column 13WS, the...

Written Ministerial Statements — House of Lords: Food: Supply Networks (4 June 2013)

Lord de Mauley: ...Chris Elliott, of Queen’s University Belfast, to lead an independent review into the integrity and assurance of food supply networks in response to the vulnerabilities recently exposed by horsemeat fraud. I am pleased that he has accepted, subject to the necessary formalities being concluded with Queen's University Belfast. On 15 April ( Official Report, col. 13WS) the House was...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Food (3 June 2013)

Richard Benyon: holding answer 20 May 2013 The independent review of the horsemeat fraud will be supported by a small secretariat of officials from DEFRA and Department of Health. The secretariat will be headed by a member of the senior civil service (PB-1) and will be supported by a team leader (grade 7), policy adviser (higher executive officer) and have administrative support (0.5 executive officer)....

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Horse Passports (3 June 2013)

David Heath: ...passport issuing organisations on improvements that can be made to the quality of passports before the new arrangements are in place. The test and hold system for horses at abattoirs ensures that horsemeat that contains bute cannot enter the food chain.

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members' Business: Hill Farming (20 May 2013)

Paul Frew: ...160; There has been the slowness of the roll-out of the rural development programme and all the pressures that that has applied.  There has been the long wait in getting single farm payments on the ground and the inspection process that has to be gone through.  There was the horsemeat scandal and the great potential for damage to the reputation of our agrifood industry and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Horse Passports (16 May 2013)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has become infamous for U-turns, but now our Eurosceptic Secretary of State has been forced into making an embarrassing EU-turn as a result of the horsemeat scandal. He scrapped the national equine database last year, right in the middle of a tendering process, to save £200,000. Now the European Commission has told him to re-establish...

Queen’s Speech — Debate (4th Day) (14 May 2013)

Lord Plumb: ...from 1987 to 1990. Consumers are increasingly concerned about where their food comes from and how it arrives on their plates. They often feel disconnected from its origins, and scandals surrounding horsemeat, mad cow disease, bovine TB, foot and mouth disease—I could go on—and animal welfare cause a lot of concern. Demand still increases for the introduction of a new food...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Horse Meat (14 May 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Mary Creagh: ...audits carried out in Canada and Mexico by the European Commission's Food and Veterinary Office between 2010 and 2013, which found evidence of shortcomings in North American systems for preventing horsemeat contaminated with banned substances entering the food chain, whether he plans to take steps to reduce import of horsemeat from North America.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Horse Meat (14 May 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Barry Gardiner: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with reference to the written ministerial statement of 15 April 2013, Official Report, columns 13-15WS, on horsemeat fraud, when he expects to announce the timing and details of the strategic review of the horsemeat fraud incident and its implications for the food chain and regulatory framework.

Queen's Speech — Debate (3rd Day) (13 May 2013)

Baroness Crawley: ..., have lost a substantial number of key posts in the budget cuts of the past three years, and that policy continues. This has not left us, for instance, in a strong position to deal with the horsemeat scandal or whatever is next to come round the corner, and consumer confidence has taken a knock as a result. If the Government's Bill were to damage further the enforcement role of the...

Written Answers — Health: Horse Meat (13 May 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Mary Creagh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many prosecutions under food labelling or trade descriptions legislation have been initiated as a result of the horsemeat scandal; and against which food producers and retailers such prosecutions have been initiated.

Written Answers — Health: Horse Meat (25 April 2013)

Huw Irranca-Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many of the industry samples tested for horsemeat contamination were tested outside of the UK.

Written Answers — Education: Beef: Horse Meat (25 April 2013)

Robert Halfon: To ask the Secretary of State for Education whether his Department has had any recent updates from the Food Standards Agency on the risk that burgers with horsemeat have been distributed into the supply chain of UK schools; and if he will make a statement.

Written Ministerial Statements — House of Lords: Food: Horsemeat Fraud (22 April 2013)

Lord de Mauley: ...developments since the Secretary of State's Written Ministerial Statement on 26 March 2013 ( Official Report, col. 90WS) on the latest results from the testing of beef products for the presence of horsemeat and on plans for reviewing lessons learnt. On 9 April, the Food Standards Agency published further test results from the first two phases of the UK-wide authenticity survey of beef...

Written Answers — Health: Horse Meat (22 April 2013)

Anna Soubry: ...in withholding the detail of these reports, it is not possible to release this information. The FSA notes that recent media coverage of IKEA's plans to re-label and resell the meatballs containing horsemeat, subject to regulatory approval, are limited to Sweden. IKEA has also reported to the FSA the results of phenylbutazone (bute) testing on batches of meatballs, where quantification...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Horse Meat (17 April 2013)

Mary Creagh: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the (a) monetary value and (b) weight is of horsemeat slaughtered in each of the last four months for which figures are available.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Horse Meat (17 April 2013)

David Heath: No estimate has been made of the value of the horsemeat industry to the UK economy, there are four abattoirs in Great Britain approved to slaughter horses. 9,405 horses were slaughtered in the UK for human consumption in 2012. The main destination for horsemeat exports is France. UK exports of meat from horses, asses, mules or hinnies Year 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Value...