Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 6263

Animal Welfare: Slaughterhouses

Tabled: 4 October 2024
Answered: 14 October 2024

Question

Andy McDonald

LabourMiddlesbrough and Thornaby East

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the adherence to animal welfare requirements of abattoirs in receipt of funding from the Smaller Abattoir Fund.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Applications to the Smaller Abattoir Fund (SAF) closed on 30 September. All abattoirs eligible under the SAF are registered and approved by the Food Standards Agency, who are also consulted during the assessment of applications. The Food Standards Agency ...

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