Department for Transport: Dairy Products
(asked on 4th May 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of dairy products procured for his Department was sourced from British producers in the latest period for which figures are available.
My department follows the Government Buying Standard for food and catering to be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/418072/gbs-food-catering-march2015.pdf. This specifies that any food purchased must conform as a minimum to UK statutory animal welfare standards or equivalent. The table below provides details on the proportion of dairy products that was sourced from British producers for the period 1st September 2014 to 31st August 2015.
Agency Name | % of UK produced products | |||||
| Butter | Cheese | Cream | Milk | Yoghurt | All dairy |
DfTC 2015* See note 1 | 0% | 57% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 81% |
DVSA 2015* See note 2 | 100% | 70% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 94% |
DVLA 2015* See note 3 | 0% | 88% | 100% | 100% | 0% | 94% |
MCA & VCA do not have onsite catering | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
DfTC note 1: Data covers the period 01/05/2015 to 31/08/2015. We have been unable to source data for DfTC pre May 2015 as we changed catering suppliers. All of the hard cheese and regional cheese provided are sourced from UK. There are number of non-indigenous, to UK, cheeses provided which are sourced from the EU. All of the butter, albeit a very minimal amount, is sourced from Republic of Ireland as the catering supplier is UK & Ireland operating company and its current butter contract is with a producer in the Republic of Ireland.
DVSA note 2: Sample period 1st September 2014 to 31st August 2015.
DVLA note 3: Sample Period 1st Sept 2014 - 31st Aug 2015, butter portions originate from Republic of Ireland, all cream & milk originates from Wales. All yoghurt originates from Denmark.