Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much (a) lamb, (b) beef, (c) pork and (d) poultry meat is purchased annually for consumption in prisons; and what proportion of each type of meat is British.
For the period February 2014 to January 2015 the following volumes were purchased
Meat | Total (Kg) | Proportion from UK |
(a) Lamb | 236,838 | 22% |
(b) Beef | 753,258 | 24% |
(c) Pork | 653,938 | 51% |
(d) Poultry | 2,570,750 | 51% |