Question follow-through · 19815
Processed Food and Slaughterhouses
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of his Department collecting information on how many (a) abattoirs and (b) food processing plants in (i) England and (ii) the UK a
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of his Department collecting information on how many (a) abattoirs and (b) food processing plants in (i) England and (ii) the UK a
17 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
There are 232 approved Food Standards Agency (FSA) abattoirs across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland and the FSA records which are sole traders, partnerships, and incorporated companies. The majority of food processing plants are overseen by local aut...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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