Slaughterhouses: Horses
(asked on 21st April 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many horses and ponies were slaughtered in UK abattoirs (a) with no CCTV, (b) with no CCTV installed in stunning, killing or bleeding areas and (c) with CCTV in all areas in 2016.
The Food Standards Agency has the following data on numbers of equines slaughtered in approved premises in England. There were no operating equine slaughter premises in Wales during the year 2016.
Type of CCTV in slaughterhouse | Number of horses slaughtered between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2016 |
With no CCTV | 136 |
With no CCTV installed in stunning, killing or bleeding areas | 3,077 |
With CCTV in all areas | 115 |