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<p>a) The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) does not undertake routine inspections
of game bird establishments, however inspections will be carried out if specific welfare
issues are reported.</p><p> </p><p>During the year 2018 APHA completed 23 welfare
inspections on game bird farms in England, Scotland and Wales.</p><p> </p><p>The breakdown
is as follows:</p><p> </p><p><strong>England 8</strong></p><p><strong>Scotland 13</strong></p><p><strong>Wales
2</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Total</strong> <strong>23</strong></p><p> </p><p>
</p><p>b) APHA is unable to provide a response on behalf of local authorities. Local
authority trading standards services do not have a statutory duty to undertake inspections
of game bird facilities, although they may undertake some based on their internal
risk analysis and local decision making. In order to ascertain the number of inspections
carried out, it would be necessary to approach each individual local authority in
England and request this information.</p><p> </p><p>Prosecutions made under the Animal
Health Act 1981 and incidences of disease are published in Section 80 of the Act.
These also include all prosecutions made by local authorities under farmed animal
welfare legislation. The report for 2018 can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/section-80-report-for-2018-under-the-animal-health-act-1981"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/section-80-report-for-2018-under-the-animal-health-act-1981</a></p><p>
</p><p>Brief details of successful prosecutions are contained in Annex 1, but they
do not detail any prosecutions against game bird farms specifically.</p>
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