Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 38241
Eggs and Poultry
Tabled: 13 March 2025
Answered: 25 March 2025
Question
Alex Mayer
Labour — Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on (a) the size of the egg laying hen population, (b) the number and proportion of egg laying hens that are kept in caged systems and (c) the numb
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerDefra’s official statistics on livestock populations in the United Kingdom, published in June 2024, state that the total number of egg-laying hens (including breeding birds) was 54.6 million birds. Of these, 41.9 million were laying hens and pullets for t...
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