Prisons: Food

(asked on 29th June 2015) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Andrew Selous Portrait
Andrew Selous
This question was answered on 9th July 2015

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%

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