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Food: Crime

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Question for Department of Health

UIN 208405, tabled on 5 September 2014

Question

Ms Margaret Ritchie
Social Democratic & Labour Party
South Down
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress he has made towards the establishment of a Food Crime Unit.

Answer

Jane Ellison
Conservative
Battersea
Commons

Answered on

10 September 2014

The Food Standards Agency advises that it has already made progress in establishing the new Food Crime Unit. Existing teams that deal with food incidents, fraud and intelligence have been reorganised to form the core of the new Unit and recruitment is underway for a small number of additional permanent and seconded staff to support this. The Food Crime Unit will be operational, with the first phase incorporating a well-developed intelligence capability, by the end of 2014.

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