Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 69564
Poultry: Animal Housing
Tabled: 21 July 2025
Answered: 1 September 2025
Question
Alex Mayer
Labour — Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for its policies of the introduction of bans on enriched cages for laying hens in European countries.
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerThe Government is committed to upholding our high animal welfare standards as part of wider trade policy. We remain firmly committed to maintaining and improving animal welfare and want to work closely with the farming sector to deliver high standards. Th...
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