- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 1 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of total feed fed to farm animals is grass.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. It would be difficult to do so in a meaningful way across species and varying systems of livestock management.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 1 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of imported animal feed used in Scotland is soya.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. Returns to HM Revenue and Customs by importers and exporters do not allow data to be broken down in detail. There is no legal requirement to record or provide this information, and to do so would be likely to impose an administrative and financial burden on industry and regulators.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 1 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of farm animals is fed entirely on grass.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. There is no legal requirement to record or provide this information. However, it is unlikely that any farm animals are fed exclusively on grass.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 1 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of animal feed sold in Scotland is labelled as containing genetically modified organisms.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. There is no legal requirement to record or provide this information, and to do so would be likely to impose an administrative and financial burden on industry and regulators. However, according to the European Feed Manufacturers'' Association, 85% of the EU''s compound feed production is now labelled to indicate that it contains GMOs or GM-derived material.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 1 October 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether linseed is imported into Scotland.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. However, the latest available figures show that 770 tonnes of oil cake and meal from linseed was imported into the UK in 2007. It is possible that there is onward transport to Scotland, but this is not recorded centrally. There is no legal requirement to record or provide this information, and to do so would be likely to impose an administrative and financial burden on industry and regulators. Returns to HM Revenue and Customs by importers and exporters do not allow data to be broken down in detail.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether flax or linseed is imported from Canada into Scotland.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. However, the latest available figures show that no oil cake or meal of linseed was imported into the UK from Canada in 2005, 2006 or 2007.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 24 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what minimum content of genetically modified organisms is found in animal feed labelled as containing such organisms.
Answer
I am informed by the Food Standards Agency that there is no maximum or minimum content as such of GM material in animal feed. Labelling is required for feed materials that deliberately contain any amount of GMOs or GM-derived material. However, labelling is not required for consignments containing adventitious or technically unavoidable traces of GM material approved in the EU, up to a threshold of 0.9%.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 24 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how much soya used in UK animal feed comes from (a) Brazil, (b) Argentina and (c) the United States of America.
Answer
The latest available confirmed figures show that in 2007 the volume of oil cake and meal of soya beans imported into the United Kingdom from Brazil was 731,122 tonnes, from Argentina 999,107 tonnes and from the United States of America 48,687 tonnes. The UK also imports soya cake and meal from other EU countries, and it should be noted that a large proportion of this material would have originated in Brazil, Argentina and the USA.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 24 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how much imported animal feed is used in Scotland.
Answer
The total tonnes of animal feeding stuffs (not including unmilled cereals) imported into Scotland in 2008 was 1,345,471. The total tonnes of animal feeding stuffs (not including unmilled cereals) imported into Scotland in the first two quarters of 2009 was 634,490. These figures are derived from Revenue and Customs Regional Trade Statistics and do not include imports from the rest of the UK.
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 24 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total tonnage is of soya used in feed fed to farm animals.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not collect information on total tonnage of feed fed to animals. However, it has been estimated that the UK consumes 2.525 million tonnes of soya products in animal feed, of which Scotland uses an estimated 10%.
