Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 84312

Livestock: Animal Welfare

Tabled: 22 October 2025
Answered: 31 October 2025
Named Day

Question

Ruth Jones

LabourNewport West and Islwyn

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Animal and Plant Health Agency's guidance entitled Animal welfare on farms inspection, published on 12 January 2016, requiring compl

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
APHA carries out inspections for a number of different reasons, including (but not limited to) in case of allegation of poor animal welfare on farm. Any allegations of poor animal welfare are logged and assessed. Where there are non-compliances with the r...

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