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Ali Thomas

Ali Thomas

Environmental Health Content Specialist at RHE Global, UK housing and HHSRS expert

Aug 9, 2026

BenHOST
25:01
Why is it that food gets wasted?
25:04
If you've got a supermarket telling you that you have to produce 100 pallets of of chocolate puddings by next Tuesday.
25:11
And if you don't, I'm going to fine you.
25:13
You will get a fine if you don't hit your contract.
25:16
So the food supplier says, well, I don't want to lose my contract with that supermarket because it's very useful.
25:21
So I'm going to 10% extra in production.
25:24
Nothing goes wrong in production.

7 MINS LATER

NeilHOST
32:21
Can you tell us more about that theory of change?
29:51
Is that right?
29:52
Yes, that's right.
29:53
So, in enforcement, the definition of category one and two hazards is that a local authority has a duty to take action on a category one hazard and the discretion to take action on a category two hazard.
30:07
And that definition hasn't changed and the threshold for those categories hasn't changed.
30:11
So, it's still… Hazards that score 1,000 or more are a Category 1 hazard.
30:16
999 or less is Category 2.
30:18
But previously, the way that scores were banded were into letters from A to J.
32:40
So give us some context to the new fine regime, would you?

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