FOI Request - Welfare of Farmed Animal
Request 101003951846
1. Do you enforce farmed animal welfare legislation?
a) If the answer is no, please explain why e.g. no farms, a different local authority does etc.
b) If a different local authority enforces this legislation in your area, please inform us which one?
If your answer to question 1 is ‘no’, please do not respond to the below questions.
2. Do you work with another local authority to conduct your farmed animal welfare enforcement and if so which one? Please also clarify whether the below data is likely to be duplicated by them.
3. How many of each of the following premises in your jurisdiction were inspected for welfare purposes one or more times?
a) Farms;
b) Markets;
c) Borders; and
d) Transport vehicles.
For the avoidance of doubt, if the same premise was inspected more than once, it should only be recorded once.
4. What was the total number of inspections that were conducted for welfare purposes in your jurisdiction at the following premises?
a) Farms;
b) Markets;
c) Borders; and
d) Transport vehicles.
Please note that this question refers to the total number of inspections, not premises inspected. Therefore, the numbers can include situations where multiple inspections took place on the same premise.
5. How many of these inspections found non-compliance with animal welfare law at the following premises?
a) Farms;
b) Markets;
c) Borders; and
d) Transport vehicles.
6. Statutory Notices
6A) Please list whether a care notice under section 25 of the Animal Health Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 was issued on each of the occasions an inspection revealed non-compliance at each of the following:
i. Farms;
ii. Markets;
iii. Borders; and
iv. Transport vehicles.
6B) Please list whether a compliance notice under The Welfare of Animals (Transport) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 was issued on each of the occasions an inspection revealed non-compliance at each of the following:
i. Farms;
ii. Markets;
iii. Borders; and
iv. Transport vehicles.
7. Please list whether a prosecution was commenced or referred to a central prosecution service or any other enforcement body on each of the occasions an inspection revealed non-compliance with animal welfare law at each of the following:
a) Farms;
b) Markets;
c) Borders; and
d) Transport vehicles.
If held, please specify which statute(s) and/or regulation(s) each of the above listed prosecutions were brought under.
8. How many animal welfare complaints did you receive in relation to the following:
a) On-farm;
b) At markets;
c) At a border post; and
d) During transport.
9. Of the above animal welfare complaints, how many led to an on-site inspection?
a) On-farm;
b) At markets;
c) At a border post; and
d) During transport.
10. How many charges did you bring or refer to a central prosecution service or any other enforcement body for offences named in the following:
a) Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006?
b) Welfare of Farmed Animals (Scotland) Regulations 2010?
c) Welfare of Animals at Markets Order 1990?
d) The Welfare of Animals (Transport) (Scotland) Regulations 2006?
e) The Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (Scotland) Regulations 2012?
11. How many individuals subject to any of the enforcement actions (both prosecutions and statutory notices) disclosed in answer to any of the above questions had previously been convicted of an animal welfare offence?
12. What is your body’s annual budget for farmed animal welfare enforcement? If you do not have a separate budget, please could you provide the budget for Trading Standards or, if separate, the department farmed animal welfare enforcement is located in. In your answer, please specify what the budget provided covers.