Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 58480
Pigs: Animal Housing
Tabled: 9 June 2025
Answered: 16 June 2025
Question
Sarah Gibson
Liberal Democrat — Chippenham
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate his Department has made of the proportion of sows in the UK kept in farrowing crates in each of the last five years.
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerDefra does not hold official data, however, for the last five years estimates have consistently maintained that 60% of the UK breeding herd were kept indoors with the vast majority of sows using farrowing crates to give birth. The remaining 40% farrow fre...
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