§ Mr. McFallTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many inspections of food premises have been carried out by each local authority in Scotland under the Food Safety Act 1990; and how many of those inspections have resulted in(a) the issuing of improvement and emergency prohibition notices, (b) informal warnings letters or (c) the voluntary closure of companies.
§ Sir Hector MonroAt present information is available only for 1991. This is given in the table1
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Number of establishments subject to Enforcement authority Number of inspections of food premises2 Issue of improvement and emergency prohibition notices Written warnings Closures (voluntary and compulsory) Bearsden and Milngavie 156 2 6 — Berwickshire3 178 1 26 — Caithness3 135 2 38 — Clackmannan3 390 31 110 — Clydebank 697 6 32 — Clydesdale3 481 1 — — Cumbernauld and Kilsyth3 62 22 23 — Cumnock and Doon Valley3 741 10 411 — Cunninghame3 995 — — — Dumbarton3 607 7 15 1 Dundee City3 1,570 — 581 — Dunfermline 1,119 55 — — East Kilbride 482 — 413 — East Lothian 820 12 325 — Eastwood 284 — 20 — Edinburgh City3 5,374 120 892 3 Ettrick and Lauderdale 409 2 101 — Falkirk 3,396 16 442 — Glasgow City 9,670 259 490 7 Gordon3 394 3 246 — Hamilton 987 24 190 — Inverclyde 645 6 431 — Inverness3 510 — 236 — Kilmarnock and Loudoun 755 — 209 — Kincardine and Deeside 317 — 103 — Kirkcaldy3 1,940 9 631 1 Kyle and Carrick3 1,338 10 309 3 Lochaber 229 22 11 — Midlothian3 240 16 65 — Monklands 1,222 40 463 2 Moray3 622 — 217 — Motherwell3 1,298 2 458 — Nairn3 111 — — — Nithsdale3 472 — 68 — North East Fife3 509 12 275 — Orkney3 92 — 48 — Perth and Kinross 1,281 11 661 — Renfrew 2,671 72 3 — Ross and Cromarty 703 1 16 4 Roxburgh3 199 25 64 4 Shetland3 258 — 44 — Skye and Lochalsh3 85 — 55 — Stewartry3 336 17 195 — Stirling3 578 6 17 — Strathkelvin 769 29 11 — Sutherland3 474 3 19 3 Tweeddale 120 — 39 — West Lothian3 597 53 53 — Western Isles3 104 — — — Wigtown3 467 1 54 — 1 These statistics cover work carried out by local authorities under the Food Safety Act 1990, regulations made under it and the Official Control of Foodstuffs Directive. They exclude: meat hygiene inspections carried out under EC veterinary legislation; inspections carried out by the Wine Standards Board under EC wine legislation. 2 The number of food hygiene and food standards inspections covers: inspection of premises; inspection of equipment including cleaning and maintenance equipment; inspection of process or operational procedure; inspection of the hygiene or practices of personnel; inspection of food (including ingredients, additives and products at any stage of manufacture) or contact materials; inspection of labels, labelling equipment and advertising matter and/or inspection of records. These figures exclude all other visits, eg revisits to check compliance with notices, sampling visits and visits to follow up complaints. 3 Excluded figures for first quarter of 1991. This was only required on a voluntary basis.