Meat: Standards
(asked on 11th January 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the value of the Food Standards Authority contract for veterinary controls of meat establishments in each of the last ten years.
The following table shows the value of each contract for veterinary official controls in meat plants since 2012. Contract periods were tendered with slightly differing geographic and technical requirements and therefore a difference in costs is realised.
Years | Contract Value | Notes |
2020-2023 | £83,700,000 | Includes sustainable profit margin, inflationary increase in charge rates for each of the three years of the fixed contract term, includes other activities such as FBO audits, dairy inspections and unannounced inspections. Contracts only cover England and Wales. |
2017-2020 | £69,000,000 | Including additional funding, audits were not included in this contract. Contract only covered England and Wales. |
2012-2017 | £73,932,444 | Fixed hours contracts. Audits were part of this contract until 2015. Contracts covered Scotland, England and Wales. |