Slaughterhouses
Commons · Question 100620 · Tabled 16 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 6 Jan 2026
Question
Asked by Andrew Snowden
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
Answer
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 6 Jan 2026
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 ...