Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 81729

Animal Housing: Livestock

Tabled: 13 October 2025

Answered: 20 October 2025

Named Day

Question

Laura Kyrke-Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her Department's planned timetable is for publishing its Animal Welfare Strategy; and if she will make it her policy to ensure that the Animal Welfare Strategy includes steps to e

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

We remain firmly committed to maintaining and improving animal welfare and want to work closely with the farming sector to deliver high standards. The use of cages for farmed animals is an issue which we are currently considering very carefully. This gove...

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