Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 118118

Animal Housing

Tabled: 4 March 2026

Answered: 11 March 2026

Named Day

Question

Jim Allister

Traditional Unionist Voice — North Antrim

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the (a) 2012 ban on conventional cages on the finances of producers with enriched colony cage systems and (b) five year transi

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

The Government has carried out an assessment of the proposal to ban the keeping of laying hens, pullets in enriched colony cages and, as part of the consultation on laying hen cage reform, is seeking views on that assessment. The consultation also seeks a...

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