Question follow-through · 19735
Slaughterhouses: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the number of livestock slaughtered without prior stunning in abattoirs in the South West.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 16 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 3 Sept 2026 · 49 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the number of livestock slaughtered without prior stunning in abattoirs in the South West.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Food Standards Agency carries out a periodic Slaughter Sector Survey, which includes information on different stunning methods and the number of animals each method was used for, plus the number of animals slaughtered without prior stunning. The Surve...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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