The beef-on-the-bone ban was imposed on the industry in 1997 after fears over new variant CJD, suspected of being the human form of mad cow disease.

BBC: News Online

With some butchers reporting sales of beef-on-the-bone up to 30 times normal levels in the past week, customers may well have run out of room in the deep freeze.

ECONOMIST: Beef

Many of the defeats, for example on the beef-on-the-bone regulations or the arrangements for the referendums in Scotland, Wales and London, concerned matters on which any second chamber would probably have wished the government to rethink.

ECONOMIST: Lords reform