| Heading: |
Slaughterhouses: Animal Welfare |
| Question ID: |
1752224 |
| UIN: |
21559 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-03 |
| Asking Member ID: |
221 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Dan Norris
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Dan Norris
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of animal welfare at abattoirs. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-01-08 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1506 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Gwynne
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| Answering Member handle: |
GwynneMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@GwynneMP
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| Answer text: |
As of 1 December 2024, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and their Service Delivery Partner between them employed 282 Official Veterinarians (OVs) and 596 Meat Hygiene Inspectors / Official Auxiliaries, as well as 12 Trainee Official Auxiliaries.The Departm... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |