Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 107756
Slaughterhouses: Animal Welfare
Tabled: 22 January 2026
Answered: 3 February 2026
Question
Dr Luke Evans
Conservative — Hinckley and Bosworth
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the 2024 Slaughter Sector Survey, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the number of [a] pigs, [b] chickens [c] cows and [d]
Answer
Dame Angela EagleRegulations require that animals must be stunned prior to slaughter so that they are unconscious and insensible to pain. The only exception to the requirement to stun is where animals are slaughtered in accordance with religious rites. The Government woul...
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