Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 25994
Poultry and Pigs: Animal Welfare
Tabled: 23 January 2025
Answered: 31 January 2025
Question
Yasmin Qureshi
Labour — Bolton South and Walkden
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 ZeichnerWe 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 closed confinement systems for farmed animals is an issue which we are currently ...
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