Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 8587

Slaughterhouses

Tabled: 10 October 2024
Answered: 16 October 2024

Question

Satvir Kaur

LabourSouthampton Test

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) non-compliances and (b) legal breeches in (i) publicly funded and (ii) all other slaughterhouses in the UK.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) monitors and enforces animal welfare legislation in slaughterhouses in England and Wales. Food Standards Scotland operate in Scotland and the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs are responsible in Nort...

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