Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many remedial action notices the Food Standards Agency have handed out to abattoirs in England and Wales over the last (a) year, (b) 5 years and (c) 10 years.

The number of Remedial Action Notices (RANs) served in England and Wales are as follows:

• 59 over the last year, from 1 November 2024 to 31 October 2025;
• 176 over the last five years, from 1 November 2020 to 31 October 2025; and
• 341 over the last seven years, from 1 November 2018 to 31 October 2025.

Data is not held beyond seven years due to data retention policy.

Before 2022, the reported number of RANs related to the number of breaches which were escalated to a formal notice, which may include more than one breach per RAN. This means that the numbers of RANs served may be less than the figure reported here for five years and seven years of data.