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  • FOI request (FOIR-408082537)

    Inspecting premises that serve food to the public

    Requested Tue 15 March 2022
    Responded  Tue 29 March 2022

    I would be most grateful if you could answer the following questions as a request under the Freedom of Information Act.

    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. That is, 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 January 2017 to present, please supply the following information in relation to Food Hygiene inspections:

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

    b. 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?

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

    d. 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:

    a. Over one year

    b, Over two years

    c. Over five years

    d. Over ten years

    e. Have never been inspected

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


    Response

    1. Hastings Borough Council is currently following the Food Standards Agency's COVID-19 Local Authority Recovery Plan in order to inspect our food premises. Frequency of inspection is currently determined by this Plan, otherwise we use the Food Intervention rating scheme as laid out in the FSA's Food Law Code of Practice (England).

    2. Please note food premises are not licensed to sell food, they are registered.

    2a.

    2017 - 839/429

    2018 - 824/351

    2019 - 853/384

    2020 - 879/299

    2021 - 858/483

    2b.

    2017 - 140

    2018 - 146

    2019 - 147

    2020 - 127

    2021 - 120

    2c.

    2017 - 429

    2018 - 351

    2019 - 384

    2020 - 264

    2021 - 431

    2d.

    2017 - 0

    2018 - 0

    2019 - 0

    2020 - 35

    2021 - 52

    3a and 3b. Those not inspected for over 1 or 2 years are for the reason that their inspection frequency is not due in line with the Recovery Plan and/or intervention programme.

    3c. Zero

    3d. Zero

    3e. Applies to newly registered premises only - 32 of which approximately 15 are not yet operating.

    3f. This information can be found at:

    https://ratings.food.gov.uk/default/en-GB

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