Food: Inspections
(asked on 7th March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many food safety officers were employed by local authorities in each year from 2012 to 2015.
Data collected by the Food Standards Agency on the number of full time equivalent professional staff employed by local authorities in the United Kingdom for food hygiene (microbiological quality and contamination of food by micro-organisms or foreign matter) and food standards (composition, chemical contamination, adulteration and labelling of food) regulatory activities are shown in the table.
| 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 |
England | |||
Food hygiene | 1,374.8 | 1,359.6 | 1,345.9 |
Food standards | 444.7 | 347.2 | 300.7 |
Northern Ireland* | |||
Food hygiene | 77.5 | 72.1 | 69.6 |
Food standards | 60.4 | 47.0 | 47.6 |
Wales | |||
Food hygiene | 160.1 | 166.7 | 152.2 |
Food standards | 54.8 | 48.6 | 43.8 |
Scotland | |||
Food hygiene | 222.7 | 229.0 | 228.3 |
Food standards | 136.1 | 127.0 | 114.8 |
UK | |||
Food hygiene | 1,835.1 | 1,827.4 | 1,796.0 |
Food standards | 695.9 | 569.8 | 506.9 |
* 2014/15 data reported for nine months