Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 94832

Poultry: Animal Welfare

Tabled: 26 November 2025

Answered: 4 December 2025

Question

Ruth Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of ending the routine culling of day-old male chicks in the UK egg industry; and whether the forthcoming Animal Welfare

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 9 July 2025 to the hon. Member for Stockport, PQ UIN 64121.