Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 36523
Meat: Ritual Slaughter
Tabled: 7 March 2025
Answered: 20 March 2025
Question
Rupert Lowe
Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of all meat (a) produced and (b) consumed in the UK that is Halal meat.
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerOf the 1.035 billion animals processed in English and Welsh slaughterhouses in 2024, an estimated 214.6 million animals (20.7%) were slaughtered to produce halal meat of which an estimated 27.0 million animals (2.6% of all animals processed) were slaughte...
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