PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Slaughterhouses: Inspections (10 January 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2017 to Question 118905, on Slaughterhouses: Inspections, how many establishments in each group of those audit results received (a) improvement necessary and (b) urgent improvement necessary audit results.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

Due to the way the data are gathered and extracted from the system, the numbers below detail the number of audits with unsatisfactory outcomes, rather than the number of establishments with unsatisfactory outcomes. That means that one establishment might have received more than one unsatisfactory outcome during the period accounted for. The data below are for England and Wales.

From August 2014 to December 2017- Improvement necessary

Slaughterhouses (including slaughterhouses with co-located cutting plants and wild game establishments)

2014 – 29

2015 – 55

2016 – 45

2017 – 41

Others (Cutting Plants)

2014 – 17

2015 – 36

2016 – 36

2017 – 39

From August 2014 to December 2017- Urgent Improvement necessary

Slaughterhouses (including slaughterhouses with co-located cutting plants and wild game establishments)

2014 – 7

2015 – 5

2016 – 5

2017 – 7

Others (Cutting Plants)

2014 – 1

2015 – 5

2016 – 1

2017 – 8

Answered by:
Steve Brine (Conservative)
18 January 2018