Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 83960

Livestock: Animal Housing

Tabled: 21 October 2025

Answered: 29 October 2025

Question

Ian Byrne

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to bring forward a public consultation on (a) banning the use of cages and (b) close confinement systems for farmed animals; and if she will make it her po

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 29 April 2025 to the hon. Member for Mid Dorset and North Poole, PQ UIN 47556.