Will the Cabinet Secretary confirm how many full-time equivalent food hygiene officers are employed in Wales, broken down by local authority?
There are currently 130.775 full-time equivalent food hygiene officers employed in Wales. These are employed to deliver food hygiene official controls. This information was reported by local authorities to the Food Standards Agency in April 2024. The table below provides the local authority breakdown.
|
Local authority |
No. of authorised FTE officers |
|
Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council |
5.2 |
|
Bridgend County Borough Council |
6.2 |
|
Caerphilly County Borough Council |
9.7 |
|
Carmarthenshire County Council |
3.4 |
|
Ceredigion County Council |
3.4 |
|
City & County of Swansea |
7.95 |
|
City of Cardiff Council |
19.5 |
|
Conwy County Borough Council |
2.9 |
|
Denbighshire County Council |
2 |
|
Flintshire County Council |
6.85 |
|
Gwynedd Council |
5.7 |
|
Isle of Anglesey County Council |
4.1 |
|
Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council |
3 |
|
Monmouthshire County Council |
4 |
|
Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council |
6.54 |
|
Newport City Council |
5.8 |
|
Pembrokeshire County Council |
6.4 |
|
Powys County Council |
6.68 |
|
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council |
8 |
|
Torfaen County Borough Council |
2.55 |
|
Vale of Glamorgan Council |
6.4 |
|
Wrexham County Borough Council |
4.5 |
|
Total |
130.775 |