Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 6269

Poultry: 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 make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the Scottish Government’s consultation on a proposal to phase out the use of cages in Scotland’s laying hen sector

Answer

Daniel Zeichner

The UK Government is committed to maintaining and improving animal welfare and wants to work closely with the farming sector to deliver high standards. Intergovernmental discussions between Defra and the devolved Governments on animal welfare matters are ...

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