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

LabourNorth 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 Zeichner
The 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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