Question follow-through · 68623
Meat: Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support his Department is offering to small independent family (a) butchers and (b) abattoirs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 16 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
16 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what support his Department is offering to small independent family (a) butchers and (b) abattoirs.
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Government recognises the important contribution small independent family butchers and abattoirs make to the food supply chain and remains committed to maintaining a resilient and accessible meat processing sector. A strong network of local abattoirs ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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