Current status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 19 February 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-43568 by Jim Fairlie on 10 February 2026, in each year since 1 February 2022 to date, how many (a) monitoring visits have been undertaken by the Animal and Plant Health Agency, broken down by (i) scheduled and (ii) unscheduled visits, and (b) investigations have been carried out into reported incidents of unacceptable slaughter methods.
Animal and Plant Health Agency undertake either scheduled inspections of salmon slaughter facilities, or when a complaint of a potential welfare issue has been made.
A breakdown of scheduled inspections over the period is as follows:
2022:5 inspections
2023:0 inspections
2024:0 inspections
2025:2 inspections
There were no reported incidents requiring investigation and no unscheduled visits were undertaken.