Oliver Heald:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what timetable she has set for delivery of product road maps in all livestock sectors; and if she will make a statement.
Mr Paice:
The Government are working closely with the dairy, beef and sheep, and pig meat sectors as they manage the delivery of the programmes for sustainability set out in their product roadmaps.
The future targets for 2015 and 2020 set out in the recently published Dairy Roadmap can be found starting at page 36 at:
http://www.dairyco.net/library/research-development/environment/dairy-roadmap.aspx
The two parts of the product roadmap for beef and sheep published in November 2009 and December 2010 respectively can be found at:
http://www.eblex.org.uk/publications/corporate.aspx
Part one highlights the challenges the sector faces in reducing greenhouse gases and sets out targets for emissions improvements and the main opportunities for efficiency improvements to deliver these. Part two includes updates on plans to monitor progress towards the targets previously set out.
The English pig meat roadmap published this spring can be found at:
http://www.bpex.org.uk/Article.aspx?ID=301329
2020 targets are set out in the box on page 6, while key performance indicators for pig producers for 2014 and 2020 are included on page 13