Contacts in the Local Authority Liaison Division

Division Head: Tom Murray

Secretary: Karla West
tel: 020 7276 8021

Deputy Head of Division: John Barnes

• policy on food safety management procedures based on ‘HACCP’ principles
• special grant scheme to local authorities in England for the implementation of Safer food better business (SFBB) in small caterers and retailers
• SFBB guidance material for small caterers/retailers and spport material for enforcement officers

Branch Head: Julian Blackburn
Contact: Carol Wittrick
tel: 020 7276 8547

• collection and analysis of Local Authority food law enforcement monitoring information
• Framework Agreement on Local Authority Food Law Enforcement

Branch Head: Geoff Deville
Contact: Akki Khan
tel: 020 7276 8419

• Official feed and food controls (OFFC)
• UK National Control Plan
• ‘Better Training for Safer Food’
• Enforcement Liaison Group (ELG)
• policy on local authority delivery of official controls
• Food Law Code of Practice and associated Practice Guidance
• ’Scores on the Doors’
• local authority food hygiene award schemes

Branch Head: Catriona Stewart
Contact: Duncan Ritchie
tel: 020 7276 8435

Further details can be found at the link below.


Head of Unit: John Barnes
Contact: Jackie Jewett
tel: 020 7276 8932

• audit of local authorities’ food and feed law enforcement services
• external audit of Meat Hygiene Service
• food law enforcement policy issues arising from audits, including good practice

Branch Head: John Questier
Contact: Abi Adeyemi
tel: 020 7276 8428