Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 52816
Slaughterhouses: Veterinary Services
Tabled: 15 May 2025
Answered: 21 May 2025
Question
Gregory Stafford
Conservative — Farnham and Bordon
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of implementing a five per cent rule to exempt low-throughput abattoirs from full-time veterinary oversight requirements
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerDefra remains committed to identifying potential opportunities to ease regulatory and/or administrative burdens that apply to smaller abattoirs. This includes the livestock unit regulatory flexibility (5% rule). Working closely with the Devolved Governmen...
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