Food Hygiene

13 May 2022

Your request

1) What is your Council’s policy for inspecting premises that serve food to the public such as bars, restaurants , hotels and takeaways in your area. Ie: How often do you aim to visit such premises to inspect food hygiene standards?

2. For each calendar year for the past 3 years from Jan 2017 to present, please supply the following information in relation to Food Hygiene inspections:

2a) How many such premises were/are licensed by your Council to serve food and were/are subject to food hygiene inspections by your Council.

2b) How many complaints did you receive from members of the public about licenced premises suspected of poor hygiene or causing food poisoning or the like?

2c) How many routine food hygiene inspections did your authority carry out?

2d) How many inspections were overdue compared to your policy in question 1?

3. As it stands today, 14th March 2022, for premises that are currently trading and were identified in Q1 (that are subject to food hygiene inspections in your Council’s area) how many have not been inspected for:

3a) Over one year;

3b) Over two years;

3c) Over five years;

3d) Over ten years.

3e) Have never been inspected.

3f) For each of the five hygiene ratings awarded to premises (1 -5) how many premises were awarded each rating upon their last inspection? 

Our response

1. What is your Council's policy for inspecting premises that serve food to the public such as bars, restaurants, hotels and takeaways in your area. Ie: How often do you aim to visit such premises to inspect food hygiene standards?

The Council’s food inspection policy is aligned to the Food Law Code of Practice.  This document is produced and published by the industry regulator the Food Standards Agency and can be found using the following link https://www.food.gov.uk/about-us/food-and-feed-codes-of-practice

2. For each calendar year for the past 3 years from Jan 2017 to present, please supply the following information in relation to Food Hygiene inspections: 

All results are subject to records for March of each year as historically progress is monitored monthly on a managerial basis, quarterly for performance and annually (financial year) for FSA returns

2a) How many such premises were/are licensed by your Council to serve food and were/are subject to food hygiene inspections by your Council.

2017 – 2343

2018 – 3379

2019 – 3477

2020 – Not reviewed due to the Pandemic

2021 – 2651     

2022 – 2495  

2b) How many complaints did you receive from members of the public about licensed premises suspected of poor hygiene or causing food poisoning or the like?

 2017 – 492 (Food 315 and Hygiene 177)

2018 – 479 (Food 318 and Hygiene 161)

2019 – 325 (Food 228 and Hygiene 97)

2020 – Not reviewed due to the Pandemic

2021 – 380 (Food 143 and Hygiene 237)

2022 – 47 (Food 45 and Hygiene 2)

2c) How many routine food hygiene inspections did your authority carry out? 

2017 – 690

2018 – 812

2019 – 1175

2020 – Not reviewed due to the Pandemic

2021 – 1573

2022 – 1253  

2d) How many inspections were overdue compared to your policy in question 1? 

2017 – 731

2018 – 2135

2019 – 1805

2020 – Not reviewed due to the Pandemic.

2022 - 676

3. As it stands today, 14th March 2022, for premises that are currently trading and were identified in Q1 (that are subject to food hygiene inspections in your Council's area) how many have not been inspected for:

3a) Over one year; 620

3b) Over two years; 480

3c) Over five years; 7

3d) Over ten years. 5

3e) Have never been inspected. 61

3f) For each of the five hygiene ratings awarded to premises (1 -5) how many premises were awarded each rating upon their last inspection? 

1 = 66

2 = 145

3 = 330

4 = 546

5 = 1297

Not rated = 111