[Mr David Amess in the Chair] — Horsemeat

Part of the debate – in Westminster Hall at 9:30 am on 30 January 2013.

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Photo of Andy McDonald Andy McDonald Labour, Middlesbrough 9:30, 30 January 2013

I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate. Does he agree that the Government’s scrapping of the national equine database was sheer folly? We have the risk of bute entering the food chain, but, putting that to one side, any savings that may have been made by scrapping the database have been totally dwarfed by the commercial and financial damage to the food industry.