date:Jan 17, 2013
job is to ensure food is safe but has seen its budget slashed from 143million last year to 132million next year.
And funding for Trading Standards services, which make local checks, is plummeting from 213million 18 months ago to no more than 170million in 2014, Whitehalls spending watchdog found.
Labours shadow food secretary Mary Creagh said last night: The Government needs to come clean about whether the scale of its cuts to trading standards and meat inspections has made this kind of scand