Dedicated animal health and welfare staff - Find a freedom of information request

1. How many dedicated animal health and welfare staff in your Local Authority (by FTE) in each the following years: 2017, 2018, 2019?

2. How many dedicated on-farm animal health and welfare staff in your authority for these years?

3. How many farm inspections/visits did your Local Authority carry out in each of these years? (If possible, please split between proactive and reactive visits)

4. How many prosecutions for farm animal welfare offences has your Local Authority made in each of these years?
If it does not exceed the time limit, please also provide the following:

5. The amount of resource applied to animal health and welfare in these years.

1. All staff are generalist officers and as such all are employed to enforce the Animal Health Act. Please see table below for FTE's for each year.

2. We are uncertain as to what is meant by 'on-farm staff'. Please see table below for animal health qualified FTE staff for each year.

3. Please see table below. Proactive visits have been recorded as those planned at the start of the year as part of our annual inspection lists.

4. Please see table below.

5. Please see table below – there are no specific budgets allocated to animal health activities. Resources would be allocated if required to respond to a particular event such as a disease outbreak or welfare issue.