Question follow-through · 36523
Meat: Ritual Slaughter
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of all meat (a) produced and (b) consumed in the UK that is Halal meat.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 7 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 20 Mar 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of all meat (a) produced and (b) consumed in the UK that is Halal meat.
11 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Mar 2025
Answer published
Of the 1.035 billion animals processed in English and Welsh slaughterhouses in 2024, an estimated 214.6 million animals (20.7%) were slaughtered to produce halal meat of which an estimated 27.0 million animals (2.6% of all animals processed) were slaughte...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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