United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 100620
Slaughterhouses
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16 December 2025
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Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many enforcement actions relating to breaches of animal welfare regulations at slaughterhouses were taken by the Food Standards Agency in each of the last five years; and how many of those rela
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16 December 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many enforcement actions relating to breaches of animal welfare regulations at slaughterhouses were taken by the Food Standards Agency in each of the last five years; and how many of those rela
Source: Commons
6 January 2026
Answer
Between April 2020 and March 2025, 1,935 animal welfare breaches posing potential or imminent animal welfare risk were recorded in slaughterhouses in England and Wales, requiring 2,320 enforcement actions. Some breaches required multiple actions, such as ...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-12-16/100620
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1864716
- uk · wq-1864716 · source updated 6 January 2026