Skip to main content

Abattoirs

Volume 406: debated on Thursday 12 June 2003

The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many working abattoirs there were in (a) 1980, (b) 1985, (c) 1990, (d) 1995 and (e) 2000; how many there are now; and if she will make a statement. [117743]

The numbers of red meat abattoirs in Great Britain for the five-year intervals from 1980 until 2000 were as follows:

Red meat abbatoirs
1980–811,135
1985–861,000
1990–91779
1995–96488
2000–01359

Source:

The Meat and Livestock Commission.

In 2002–03 there were 320 red meat abattoirs in Great Britain.