Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 108813
Slaughterhouses: Animal Welfare
Tabled: 27 January 2026
Answered: 3 February 2026
Question
Mr Richard Holden
Conservative — Basildon and Billericay
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what consideration her Department has given to banning non-stun slaughter of animals.
Answer
Dame Angela EagleRegulations require that animals must be stunned prior to slaughter so that they are unconscious and insensible to pain, and the only exception is where animals are slaughtered in accordance with religious rites. The Government would prefer all animals to...
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