Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 October 2018 to Question 174614 on Horses: Slaughterhouses, how many soliped and equidae were slaughtered in 2018; and how many of those soliped and equidae carried passports issued by Weatherbys.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is responsible for the delivery of official controls in approved meat establishments (slaughterhouses, cutting plants and game handling establishments) subject to veterinary control within the United Kingdom. The FSA records the number of soliped and equidae that are slaughtered.

In 2018 2,618 soliped and equidae were slaughtered in FSA approved premises, of which 447 had passports issued by Weatherbys. It should be noted that Weatherbys passport numbers include Weatherbys, Weatherbys Thoroughbred, Weatherbys Ireland and Weatherbys Irish.