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Food: Hygiene

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take legislative steps to ensure that food outlets must display their Food Standards Agency food hygiene rating.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 24 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 29 Oct 2025
Answer: 21 Nov 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

24 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take legislative steps to ensure that food outlets must display their Food Standards Agency food hygiene rating.
29 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Food Hygiene Rating Scheme is operated by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in partnership with local authorities across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.Introducing a statutory scheme in England would require primary legislation as well as the secu...

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