Question follow-through · 103339
Meat: Inspections
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the number of meat hygiene Inspectors.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 19 Jan 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
6 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the number of meat hygiene Inspectors.
8 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) does not have directly employed staff who are subject to skilled worker visas.The FSA recruits and trains domestic Official Auxiliaries, Meat Hygiene Inspectors, twice a year in line with the Government strategy of placing ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Health Services
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