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Proposed changes to the local authority food law enforcement monitoring system

Wednesday 23 March 2005

The Food Standards Agency is currently undertaking an overall review of the monitoring system used for reporting on each local authority's performance on the enforcement of food law. Consultation of all local authorities will be carried out in two phases, with the first phase in progress below.

All comments and views should be sent to:

Jennifer Reynolds

Food Standards Agency
Room 411C
Aviation House
125 Kingsway
London
WC2B 6NH

Tel: 020 7276 8419
Fax: 020 7276 8447
E-mail: la.monitoring@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk

Responses are requested by: 27 May 2005

Consultation details

Phase 1 consultation
We would like to seek your views on the proposals for simplifying the reporting of inspection data, and on a possible matrix, available at the link below, for measuring each local authority's overall performance. Colleagues are asked to let us have their agreement or disagreement with, or to give their broader views on, each of the following proposals that are detailed in the letter sent to local authorities below:

to reduce the number of categories of food premises from 10 to 6;
to reduce the number of inspection categories from 4 to 2;
to change from reporting inspections planned (at the start of the year) and those achieved, to inspections due and those outstanding (at the end of the year);
the proposed content of the draft matrix;
for advisory and educational work, see the worksheet page �Advisory-Education-Awards (4.1)� in the proposed matrix, should the number of businesses that have received an award be reported in absolute terms, or on a 'per 100 premises' basis? And should local authorities be asked to report only those businesses that have received an award within the financial year being reported on, or to report all businesses which currently hold an award, even if from a previous year?;
the broader data requirement for identifying national trends; and
details of any extra costs which they think may arise from these proposals, with reasons why.

Phase 2 consultation

Further detailed work in the review will be required, for example, on the matrix scoring systems and on definitions of individual data requirements. There will be a second general consultation on this later in the year, which will start once the responses to this consultation on the first phase, on the above proposals, have been collated and considered. The impact of revised EU data requirements under the Official Food and Feed Controls Regulation 882/2004 (replacing the Official Control Directive from 1 January 2006) are to be considered in a later phase of policy analysis work.

Further information

This consultation has been prepared in accordance with the (External) HM Government Code of Practice on Consultation , which states that a consultation must follow better regulation best practice, including carrying out an Impact Assessment (Regulatory Impact Assessment in Scotland). The assessment is included in the consultation documents.

We are interested in what you thought of this consultation and would therefore welcome your general feedback on both the consultation package and overall consultation process. If you would like to assist us to improve the quality of future consultations, please feel free to share your thoughts with us by using the consultation feedback questionnaire.

Download word Consultation feedback questionnaire (Word)

Download pdf Consultation feedback questionnaire (pdf)

Publication of personal data and confidentiality of responses

In accordance with the FSA principle of openness our Information Centre at Aviation House will hold a copy of the completed consultation. Responses will be open to public access upon request. The FSA will also publish a summary of responses, which may include personal data, such as your full name and contact address details. If you do not want this information to be released, please complete and return the Publication of Personal Data Form. Return of this form does not mean that we will treat your response to the consultation as confidential, just your personal data.

Download word Data protection form (Word)

Download pdf Data protection form (pdf)

Publication of response summary

Within three months of a consultation ending we aim to publish a summary of responses received and provide a link to it from this page.

If, after three months, the summary is still not showing, please contact the person who was responsible for the original consultation. Alternatively, you can contact Judith Taylor, the FSA Consultation Co-ordinator, on 020 7276 8633.
Email: judith.taylor@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk

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Proposed changes to the local authority food law enforcement monitoring system

All comments and views should be sent to:

Consultation details

Further information

Publication of personal data and confidentiality of responses

Publication of response summary

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