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819852

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Slaughterhouses: Inspections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2017 to Question 118905, on Slaughterhouses: Inspections, what the types of audit outcomes that can be awarded to a meat establishment are; and what types of violations each such audit outcome covers.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	121924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>The audit outcomes for Food Standards Agency (FSA) approved meat establishments are:</p><p> </p><p>- Good: No issues of significance for public health animal health or animal welfare during the entire period;</p><p>- Generally Satisfactory: No immediate issues of significance for public health, animal health or animal welfare identified on the day of the audit. Any non-compliances (NCs) identified during the audit period corrected promptly;</p><p>- Improvement Necessary: Major NCs identified at audit and / or NCs during the audit period not always responded to and corrected promptly; and</p><p>- Urgent Improvement Necessary: Multiple major NCs or critical NC identified during audit visit or interim audit period. Official intervention required to ensure public health safeguards.</p><p> </p><p>Audit outcomes are based on the number and categorisation of non-compliances raised by the FSA veterinary auditors against an audit question. Each question can be assessed as:</p><p> </p><p>- Compliant - Food business is operating in accordance with its food safety management systems, food safety standards and has met the requirements of the regulations;</p><p>- Minor – (NCs) Not likely to compromise public health (including food safety), animal health and welfare or lead to the handling of unsafe or unsuitable food. An isolated low risk situation and does not compromise achieving control measures of the food safety program; that is, overall the food safety program is still effective in controlling the food safety hazards. When viewed collectively a number of related minor NCs may represent a major NC;</p><p>- Major – (NCs) Likely to compromise public health (including food safety) or animal health or welfare or may lead to the production and handling of unsafe or unsuitable food if no remedial action is taken. When viewed collectively a number of related major non compliances may represent a critical non-compliance; and</p><p>- Critical - Contravention poses an imminent and serious risk to public health (including food safety) or animal health and welfare.</p><p> </p><p>The number of major and critical NCs raised during an audit will drive the final outcome of the audit.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/01/2018 14:07:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

819853

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Slaughterhouses: Inspections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2017 to Question 118905, on Slaughterhouses: Inspections, what types of businesses are classed by his Department as meat establishments.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	121925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>The following establishments are considered meat establishments by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and are subject to official controls enforced and executed by the FSA:</p><p>- Slaughterhouses;</p><p>- Farm slaughter facilities;</p><p>- Game handling establishments; and</p><p>- Cutting plants.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/01/2018 14:03:05 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

819854

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Slaughterhouses: Inspections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2017 to Question 118905, on Slaughterhouses: Inspections, how many establishments in each group of those audit results received (a) improvement necessary and (b) urgent improvement necessary audit results.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	121926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>Due to the way the data are gathered and extracted from the system, the numbers below detail the number of audits with unsatisfactory outcomes, rather than the number of establishments with unsatisfactory outcomes. That means that one establishment might have received more than one unsatisfactory outcome during the period accounted for. The data below are for England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>From August 2014 to December 2017- Improvement necessary</p><p> </p><p>Slaughterhouses (including slaughterhouses with co-located cutting plants and wild game establishments)</p><p>2014 – 29</p><p>2015 – 55</p><p>2016 – 45</p><p>2017 – 41</p><p> </p><p>Others (Cutting Plants)</p><p>2014 – 17</p><p>2015 – 36</p><p>2016 – 36</p><p>2017 – 39</p><p>From August 2014 to December 2017- Urgent Improvement necessary</p><p> </p><p>Slaughterhouses (including slaughterhouses with co-located cutting plants and wild game establishments)</p><p>2014 – 7</p><p>2015 – 5</p><p>2016 – 5</p><p>2017 – 7</p><p> </p><p>Others (Cutting Plants)</p><p>2014 – 1</p><p>2015 – 5</p><p>2016 – 1</p><p>2017 – 8</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/01/2018 14:09:34 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

819855

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Slaughterhouses: Inspections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2017 to Question 118905, on Slaughterhouses: Inspections what assessment his Department has made of the reasons for the difference in the comparative rate of unsatisfactory audit results for slaughterhouses and other meat establishments.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	121927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>Although the Food Standards Agency audit system was designed to take into account the variations between establishments, there are several issues that can led to different compliance levels between abattoirs and other establishments:</p><p>- Abattoirs have a larger list of sections and questions to be assessed against, and therefore there are more chances for non-compliances (NCs) to be raised. One of these sections is animal welfare, where incidents leading or potentially leading to animal suffering will immediately default to a major or critical NC, impacting directly on the final audit outcome; and</p><p>- Slaughterhouses do normally perform higher risk operations than cutting plants, which gives further opportunity for non-compliances to be raised.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/01/2018 14:12:07 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

819856

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Slaughterhouses: Inspections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20th December 2017 to Question 118904, on Slaughterhouses: Inspections, what constitutes an (a) imminent risk to public health and (b) serious breaches in animal welfare standards.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	121928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>Chapter 4.1 of the Food Standards Agency Manual for Official Controls includes some examples on what an imminent risk to public health risk and animal welfare, in the definition of critical non-compliance (NC).</p><p> </p><p>Critical (NC): A critical NC is one where the contravention poses an imminent and serious risk to public health (including food safety), animal health and welfare.</p><p> </p><p>Examples (not exhaustive):</p><p> </p><p>- systemic failure of critical aspects of the food business operator practices and procedures for implementing food safety, animal health and welfare regulatory requirements;</p><p>- a serious pest infestation;</p><p>- intentional falsification of records;</p><p>- the same chopping board and knife being used for ready to eat food after being used for raw chicken without being cleaned and sanitised;</p><p>- evidence of pest control chemicals such as rat bait in food;</p><p>- raw meat juices dripping onto uncovered ready to eat food; and</p><p>- repetitive (more than once) major NC for the same practice or circumstance.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/01/2018 14:01:46 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

819857

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Slaughterhouses: Inspections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2017 to Question 118905, on Slaughterhouses: Inspections, how many (a) slaughterhouses and (b) other meat establishments have received unsatisfactory audit results in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	121929
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>The Food Standards Agency audit system was updated in August 2014, changing significantly the categorisations of each question being assessed and the audit outcomes. The results presented below have been split in two sections to accommodate the differences between these two periods.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, due to the way the data are gathered and extracted from the system, the numbers below detail the number of audits with unsatisfactory outcomes, rather than the number of establishments with unsatisfactory outcomes. That means that one establishment might have received more than one unsatisfactory outcome during the period accounted for. The data below are for England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>From 2010 to July 2014</p><p> </p><p>In this section audits leading to a re-audit within two months have been considered as unsatisfactory leading to immediate intervention being required.</p><p>Slaughterhouses (including slaughterhouses with co-located cutting plants and wild game establishments)</p><p>2010 – 11</p><p>2011 – 4</p><p>2012 – 20</p><p>2013 – 23</p><p>2014 – 8</p><p> </p><p>Others (Cutting Plants)</p><p>2010 – 4</p><p>2011 – 0</p><p>2012 – 5</p><p>2013 – 1</p><p>2014 – 2</p><p> </p><p>From August 2014 to December 2017</p><p> </p><p>In this section audits with Urgent Improvement Necessary outcome have been considered as unsatisfactory leading to immediate intervention being required.</p><p>Slaughterhouses (including slaughterhouses with co-located cutting plants and wild game establishments)</p><p>2014 – 7</p><p>2015 - 5</p><p>2016 - 5</p><p>2017 - 7</p><p> </p><p>Others (Cutting Plants)</p><p>2014 – 1</p><p>2015 - 5</p><p>2016 - 1</p><p>2017 - 8</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/01/2018 14:34:52 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

819858

registered interest
date	10/01/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Slaughterhouses: Inspections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2017 to Question 118905, on Slaughterhouses: Inspections, which slaughterhouse and meat establishments had their approval withdrawn; and for what reason their approval was withdrawn.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	121930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2018 answer text <p>Establishments who have had their approval withdrawn since 2010 are listed below, together with the main reason for its withdrawal.</p><p> </p><p>Slaughterhouses:</p><p> </p><p>- S Bagshaw and Sons - Welfare abuse;</p><p>- Central Meat Company Limited - Serious deficiencies in operational hygiene procedures;</p><p>- Simply Halal (Banham) Limited - Welfare abuse; and</p><p>- Summers Poultry Products Limited - Serious deficiencies in operational hygiene procedures.</p><p> </p><p>Cutting plants:</p><p> </p><p>- KNK Pure Halal Poultry Limited – Serious deficiencies in operational hygiene procedures;</p><p>- Sherban Halal Poultry – Serious deficiencies in operational hygiene procedures;</p><p>- James Mitchell Halal Meat and Poultry Limited – Serious deficiencies in operational hygiene procedures; and</p><p>- Premium Halal Meat Poultry Limited - Serious deficiencies in operational hygiene procedures.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/01/2018 13:54:39 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

806112

registered interest
date	13/12/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Bowel Cancer: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has plans to reduce the screening age for bowel cancer to 50 years old.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	119313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>Following the Ministerial approval of the United Kingdom National Screening Committee’s (UK NSC’s) recommendation to introduce Faecal Immunochemical Testing as the primary screen test in the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme, the UK NSC commissioned the Sheffield School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) to use existing evidence and modelling techniques to describe options for optimising bowel cancer screening. This includes at different cut off levels for the test and at various age ranges.</p><p> </p><p>The UK NSC will continue to work with ScHARR, and stakeholders, and will make a final recommendation in 2018.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 21/12/2017 16:24:21 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

805232

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Slaughterhouses: Inspections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2017 to Question 115457, whether a slaughterhouse is allowed to continue operating after receiving an unsatisfactory audit result, before the performance of the slaughterhouse has been seen to have or have not improved, whilst follow-up audits and unannounced inspections are occurring.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	118904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>A slaughterhouse may be allowed to continue operating after receiving an audit outcome of ‘Improvement Necessary’ or ‘Urgent Improvement Necessary’. However, if the Food Standards Agency believes there is an imminent risk to public health or there are serious breaches in animal welfare standards it can suspend the business from operating immediately until such time as the issues identified have been resolved or the approval is withdrawn.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/12/2017 17:25:52 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

805233

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Slaughterhouses: Inspections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) slaughterhouses and (b) other meat establishments audited by the Food Standards Agency have (i) received one unsatisfactory audit result, (ii) received more than one successive unsatisfactory audit result, (iii) had their approval withdrawn as a result of an unsatisfactory audit result and (iv) been audited in the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	118905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is as follows:</p><p> </p><p>Slaughterhouses:</p><p>- 65 slaughterhouses have received one unsatisfactory audit result;</p><p>- 70 slaughterhouses have received more than one successive; unsatisfactory audit result;</p><p>- One slaughterhouse has had their approval withdrawn following an unsatisfactory audit; and</p><p>- The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has audited 467 slaughterhouses.</p><p> </p><p>Other Meat Establishments:</p><p>- 67 other meat establishments have received one unsatisfactory audit result;</p><p>- 35 other meat establishments have received more than one successive unsatisfactory audit result;</p><p>- Four other meat establishments have had their approval withdrawn following an unsatisfactory audit; and</p><p>- The FSA has audited 1,220 other meat establishments.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 20/12/2017 17:26:55 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy