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Animal Housing: Pigs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to ban the use of farrowing crates for pigs.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
24 Jul 2024
Answer
26 Jul 2024 · 4 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 22 Jul 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to ban the use of farrowing crates for pigs.

  2. 24 Jul 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 26 Jul 2024

    Answer published

    I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 22 July 2024 to the hon. Member for Battersea, PQ UIN 414.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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