Figures for Wales are published by the National Assembly for Wales. No, because these matters are dealt with by the local authorities who have responsibility for enforcing Specified Risk Material Order 1997. The feeding of SRM to hounds is classified as a Category 1 failure of the SRM controls. It is not possible to determine how many of these relate to feeding SRM to hounds except at disproportionate cost. All such failures would be notified in writing, unless the enforcement authority expressly requested that this is not done.
Prosecution is a matter for the appropriate local authority.
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what measures he is taking to promote diversification within farming. The England Rural Development Plan describes how Government intend to use the European Community co-funded measures in the Rural Development Regulation to support farmers wishing to diversify within farming. In addition, under the Action Plan for Farming, MAFF will be producing a new advisory booklet on farm diversification and farmers who need planning approval for Rural Enterprise Scheme applications will receive free specialist advice. The arrangements for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are set out in the rural development plans and Single Programming Documents for those countries. The data have been extracted from the Ministry's annual return to the Treasury of actual and suspected frauds.