- Request
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Please provide the following information covering the years 2019 to 2024, broken down by year where possible:
1. The number of farmed animal welfare inspections conducted by your authority.
2. The number of cases of non-compliance identified as a result of those inspections.
3. The number of enforcement actions taken, including:
Improvement notices
Fixed penalty notices
Prosecutions
4. Whether the council has produced and published an annual enforcement report on farmed animal welfare as required under Article 11 of the Official Controls Regulation.
If yes, please provide a copy or a link.
5. The number of formal welfare complaints related to farmed animals received by the council, and how many led to inspections.
6. The number of staff currently employed or contracted to carry out farmed animal welfare inspections or enforcement. - Decision
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I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.
1. 2019 – 102
2020 – 68
2021 – 108
2022 – 98
2023 – 103
2024 – 154
2.
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
Advice Provided
30
24
36
38
49
64
Warning notice or further enforcement action
16
3
22
11
24
34
3.
Improvement notices - 0
Fixed penalty notices – 0
Cautions – 1 2022
Current investigations – 2 pending from offences in 2024
Prosecutions – 1 prosecution currently pending from offences committed since 2022
Animals seized/removed – 2 – 2020 and 2022
4. An annual enforcement report on farmed animal welfare is produced but not published. The report contains many hyperlinks to internal documents.
5. Over the 2019-2024 period there were 301 animal welfare complaints concerning 169 premises. 58 of these premises received an animal health inspection. 69 premises received an animal health, feed or other type of inspection.
6. 2025 – 3 FTE
- Reference number
- FOI 12066613
- Date request received
- 26/03/25
- Date of decision
- 24/04/25