Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 10884
Poultry: Animal Welfare
Tabled: 23 October 2024
Answered: 31 October 2024
Question
Sam Carling
Labour — North West Cambridgeshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure egg-based products imported into the UK are from hens kept to welfare standards equivalent to those required in the UK.
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerThe Government shares the public’s high regard for the UK’s environmental protections, food standards and animal welfare. The Government recognises farmers’ concerns about imports produced using methods not permitted in the UK. We have been clear that we ...
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