Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 6270

Poultry and Pigs: Animal Welfare

Tabled: 4 October 2024

Answered: 15 October 2024

Question

Andy McDonald

Labour — Middlesbrough and Thornaby East

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish a timetable for a public consultation on the use of (a) cages for laying hens and (b) farrowing crates for pigs.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner

We are firmly committed to maintaining and improving animal welfare and want to work closely with the farming sector to deliver high standards. The use of enriched ‘colony’ cages for laying hens and farrowing crates for pigs is an issue we will want to fu...

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