§ 66. Mr. Spenceasked the Minister of Food whether the seven new slaughter houses being built by the Government will continue to operate under the complete control of the Government; or whether they are eventually to be handed over to municipal authorities.
§ Mr. WebbThis will depend on the future policy with regard to slaughtering, about which the Government is at present consulting the various interests concerned. The contracts already signed however, provide for either possibility.
§ 67. Mr. Spenceasked the Minister of Food the size and potential capacity of the seven new slaughterhouses and two experimental premises.
§ Mr. WebbThe slaughterhouses to be built at Canterbury, Grimsby, Salisbury and Swindon, the one in the Bourne-mouth-Poole area and the Guildford experimental slaughterhouse will each have a potential daily slaughtering capacity of about 100 to 110 cattle, or the equivalent in calves, sheep or pigs.
The daily capacity of the slaughterhouse at Sunderland, the one in the Bolton-Leigh-Wigan area and the experimental slaughterhouse at Fareham, will each be between 200 and 250 cattle. There will be ample grazing land and lair-age accommodation for the animals before slaughter and sufficient hanging space and chill rooms for the meat.