Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 75204

Poultry: Farms

Tabled: 4 September 2025
Answered: 23 September 2025

Question

Mr Lee Dillon

Liberal DemocratNewbury

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to lower the threshold for the number of poultry places permitted on a farm before an environmental permit is required.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
The department has no current plans to lower this threshold.