Question follow-through · 100023
Slaughterhouses: Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the National Farmers’ Union on small and medium sized abattoirs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 15 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the National Farmers’ Union on small and medium sized abattoirs.
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jan 2026
Answer published
Defra engages regularly with a number of key stakeholders, including 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 mediu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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