Question follow-through · 54493
Slaughterhouses: Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with the National Farmers’ Union on challenges faced by small and medium-sized abattoirs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 22 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 6 Jun 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with the National Farmers’ Union on challenges faced by small and medium-sized abattoirs.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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6 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Secretary of State and I often meet with the National Farmers’ Union to discuss a wide range of farming issues which are important to both producers and processors. Defra officials continue to work closely with small and medium sized abattoir sector s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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