Horses: Slaughterhouses
(asked on 16th September 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many soliped and equidae were slaughtered for meat in UK abattoirs in each month of 2020.
This question was answered on 14th January 2021
The Food Standards Agency holds the following data. For each month of 2020 the following numbers of soliped and equidae were slaughtered for meat in United Kingdom abattoirs:
Month / Year | Numbers (Throughput) |
January 2020 | 53 |
February 2020 | 123 |
March 2020 | 183 |
April 2020 | 107 |
May 2020 | 112 |
June 2020 | 65 |
July 2020 | 95 |
August 2020 | 105 |
Note: Numbers are recorded under one heading of ‘soliped’.
No soliped or equidae were slaughtered in Northern Ireland in 2020.