Question follow-through · 29903
Slaughterhouses: Inspections
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the planned increase in meat inspection charges by the Food Standards Agency on smaller abattoirs.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 7 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 13 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the planned increase in meat inspection charges by the Food Standards Agency on smaller abattoirs.
13 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has calculated annual charge rates for controls conducted in meat premises in 2025/26 for England and Wales and has indicated that charges will continue to be offset by a taxpayer-funded discount scheme in that financial ye...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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