Question follow-through · 17619

Processed Food and Slaughterhouses

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on how many (a) abattoirs and (b) food processing plants in (i) England and (ii) the UK are family-owned businesses.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 3 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 5 Dec 2024
Answer: 9 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

3 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on how many (a) abattoirs and (b) food processing plants in (i) England and (ii) the UK are family-owned businesses.
5 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Dec 2024
Answer published
This information is not held by the Food Standards Agency (FSA). There are 232 abattoirs approved by the FSA in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The FSA is aware of which are sole traders, partnerships, and which are incorporated companies, but it do...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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