PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Slaughterhouses: Inspections (12 December 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) slaughterhouses and (b) other meat establishments audited by the Food Standards Agency have (i) received one unsatisfactory audit result, (ii) received more than one successive unsatisfactory audit result, (iii) had their approval withdrawn as a result of an unsatisfactory audit result and (iv) been audited in the last seven years.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

The information requested is as follows:

Slaughterhouses:

- 65 slaughterhouses have received one unsatisfactory audit result;

- 70 slaughterhouses have received more than one successive; unsatisfactory audit result;

- One slaughterhouse has had their approval withdrawn following an unsatisfactory audit; and

- The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has audited 467 slaughterhouses.

Other Meat Establishments:

- 67 other meat establishments have received one unsatisfactory audit result;

- 35 other meat establishments have received more than one successive unsatisfactory audit result;

- Four other meat establishments have had their approval withdrawn following an unsatisfactory audit; and

- The FSA has audited 1,220 other meat establishments.

Answered by:
Steve Brine (Conservative)
20 December 2017