Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 48387

Partridges and Pheasants: Animal Housing

Tabled: 28 April 2025

Answered: 8 May 2025

Question

Yasmin Qureshi

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to ban the use of cages for (a) pheasants and (b) partridges for breeding.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner

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 and other close confinement systems for farmed animals, including for gamebirds, is an issu...

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