Food hygiene in Scotland
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- Food hygiene in Scotland
This is an area summary. It does not give a rating for one premises. Find a premises rating at the Food Standards Agency.
Scotland inspects under its own scheme, and the file accepted on 18 October 2026 holds 46,364 known results. A pass is not a score on the 0 to 5 scale, so the page never mixes them. The share needing improvement is 7.6%, from 7.3% to 7.9% at 95 percent.
Wilson 7.6% (95% interval 7.3% to 7.9%), from 46,364 ratings
This is an area summary, not a rating for one premises. Improvement means a result that needs improvement; it is not improvement over time. The file date is not the date of every inspection. Find a premises rating at the Food Standards Agency.
Needs improvement means FHRS ratings at 0, 1 or 2, or an FHIS Improvement Required result. Waiting and exempt results do not enter that share.
Median age of the known rating dates: 688 days. Older than two years: 48.1% (95% interval 47.6% to 48.6%), from 46,364 ratings.
- Scotland restaurants: 9.6% (95% interval 9.0% to 10.2%), from 10,528 ratings
- Scotland takeaways: 13.1% (95% interval 12.2% to 14.1%), from 5,400 ratings
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Figures
- Median age of a rating688 daysDays since inspection, known rating dates only. This does not say an inspection is overdue. Based on 46,364 ratings with a known date.
- Older than two years48.1% (95% interval 47.6% to 48.6%), from 46,364 ratingsShare of dated results above two years. Missing dates stay outside this denominator.
- Waiting or unknown results10,265 recordsCount outside every known-rating share; waiting is not a rating of zero.
Shared scale: 0% to 10.2%.
Scotland: 7.6% (95% interval 7.3% to 7.9%), from 46,364 ratings
Scotland restaurants: 9.6% (95% interval 9.0% to 10.2%), from 10,528 ratings
Scotland restaurants: 9.6% (95% interval 9.0% to 10.2%), from 10,528 ratings
Scotland takeaways: 13.1% (95% interval 12.2% to 14.1%), from 5,400 ratings
| Measure | Result | Low | High | Ratings counted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Known ratings | 46,364 ratings | No interval | No interval | Exact file count |
| Results needing improvement | 3,509 ratings | No interval | No interval | Exact file count |
| Waiting or unknown results | 10,265 records | No interval | No interval | Exact file count |
| Exempt premises | 2,282 premises | No interval | No interval | Exact file count |
| Needs improvement | 7.6% | 7.3% | 7.9% | 46,364 ratings |
| Median age of a rating | 688 days | No interval | No interval | 46,364 ratings |
Further calculated measures
| Measure | Result | Low | High | Ratings counted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Older than two years | 48.1% | 47.6% | 48.6% | 46,364 ratings |
| Measure | Result | Low | High | Ratings counted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Known ratings | 10,528 ratings | No interval | No interval | Exact file count |
| Results needing improvement | 1,006 ratings | No interval | No interval | Exact file count |
| Waiting or unknown results | 1,847 records | No interval | No interval | Exact file count |
| Exempt premises | 171 premises | No interval | No interval | Exact file count |
| Needs improvement | 9.6% | 9.0% | 10.2% | 10,528 ratings |
| Median age of a rating | 523 days | No interval | No interval | 10,528 ratings |
Further calculated measures
| Measure | Result | Low | High | Ratings counted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Older than two years | 40.1% | 39.1% | 41.1% | 10,528 ratings |
| Measure | Result | Low | High | Ratings counted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Known ratings | 5,400 ratings | No interval | No interval | Exact file count |
| Results needing improvement | 707 ratings | No interval | No interval | Exact file count |
| Waiting or unknown results | 819 records | No interval | No interval | Exact file count |
| Exempt premises | 6 premises | No interval | No interval | Exact file count |
| Needs improvement | 13.1% | 12.2% | 14.1% | 5,400 ratings |
| Median age of a rating | 373 days | No interval | No interval | 5,400 ratings |
Further calculated measures
| Measure | Result | Low | High | Ratings counted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Older than two years | 28.8% | 27.6% | 30.1% | 5,400 ratings |
Published council areas
Scotland
- Aberdeen City. 16.9% (95% interval 15.2% to 18.7%), from 1,801 ratings
- Aberdeenshire. 8.1% (95% interval 6.9% to 9.3%), from 2,171 ratings
- Angus. 7.1% (95% interval 5.6% to 9.0%), from 943 ratings
- Argyll and Bute. 6.0% (95% interval 4.4% to 8.0%), from 753 ratings
- Dumfries and Galloway. 6.4% (95% interval 5.2% to 7.8%), from 1,481 ratings
- Dundee City. 7.0% (95% interval 5.7% to 8.6%), from 1,301 ratings
- East Ayrshire. 4.0% (95% interval 2.9% to 5.6%), from 892 ratings
- East Lothian. 4.0% (95% interval 2.8% to 5.5%), from 860 ratings
- Edinburgh (City of). 12.6% (95% interval 11.6% to 13.6%), from 4,691 ratings
- Falkirk. 2.3% (95% interval 1.5% to 3.4%), from 1,082 ratings
- Fife. 2.4% (95% interval 2.0% to 3.0%), from 4,249 ratings
- Glasgow City. 13.1% (95% interval 12.1% to 14.2%), from 4,589 ratings
- Highland. 14.0% (95% interval 12.7% to 15.4%), from 2,934 ratings
- Moray. 2.5% (95% interval 1.6% to 3.7%), from 973 ratings
- North Ayrshire. 4.0% (95% interval 3.0% to 5.4%), from 1,213 ratings
- North Lanarkshire. 4.4% (95% interval 3.6% to 5.3%), from 2,541 ratings
- Perth and Kinross. 2.5% (95% interval 1.8% to 3.4%), from 1,716 ratings
- Renfrewshire. 1.8% (95% interval 1.1% to 2.7%), from 1,356 ratings
- Scottish Borders. 5.1% (95% interval 4.0% to 6.5%), from 1,255 ratings
- South Ayrshire. 0.8% (95% interval 0.4% to 1.6%), from 985 ratings
- South Lanarkshire. 12.7% (95% interval 11.3% to 14.3%), from 1,965 ratings
- Stirling. 8.1% (95% interval 6.6% to 10.0%), from 1,083 ratings
- West Lothian. 2.7% (95% interval 1.8% to 4.0%), from 923 ratings
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Part of what this page would normally show is missing from the accepted file: either the rating dates needed for an age figure, or the three component scores needed for a mix, or the second snapshot needed for a 30-day change. The figures that are present stand on their own denominators. The missing part is absent, not zero.
Open a council area inside this scheme to see the same measures on a smaller base.
Limits of these figures
Known results: 46,364 ratings; needing improvement: 3,509 ratings; waiting or unknown: 10,265 records; exempt: 2,282 premises. Waiting and exempt records are outside the known results.
Rating dates missing from 0 ratings. The median and age share use 46,364 ratings with known dates.
Component scores and the share rated five do not apply to FHIS. Eat Safe is an award alongside a pass result, not a separate step on the rating scale.
Unknown-result scenarios: 6.1% to 24.4% if every waiting or unknown result became known. These are scenario bounds, not confidence intervals. Exempt premises remain excluded.
No 30-day change is published: two accepted files exactly 30 days apart are required. One snapshot cannot show how many premises improved or worsened.
Inspections are not a random sample. These intervals describe the known-result shares, not the chance that a particular premises is safe.
It does not tell you about one premises. A share describes the known ratings in an area on the day of the file, and a single rating can change the day after.
It does not count premises waiting for a rating, and it does not count exempt premises. Both stay outside the denominator, so a low share is not evidence that everything was inspected.
It does not say an inspection is overdue. The age of a rating is the gap since the last published inspection, and the publisher sets no deadline we could measure against.
It does not rank areas. Where two intervals overlap, the order of the two numbers carries no information.
It does not combine schemes. A Scottish pass result and a 0 to 5 score are different measurements and are never averaged.
Source
- Source
- Food Standards Agency, national English-language open data file
- File accepted
- 18 October 2026
- Publisher file timestamp
- 2026-10-17T01:06:42Z
- National file count
- 614,349
- Source SHA-256
- 0eccd1ba6db3e1cb9ec1e50c296a825d4c4a0dceec3935b2fc2e0106936b5715
- Calculation release
- fsa-2026-10-18-0eccd1ba6db3-e2b1a3747bdf
- Method
- Same-type, same-scheme profiles; unknown and exempt results excluded from shares.
- Substantive change
- 18 October 2026
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