Question follow-through · 6269
Poultry: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the Scottish Government’s consultation on a proposal to phase out the use of cages in Scotland’s laying hen sector
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 4 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 8 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 15 Oct 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the Scottish Government’s consultation on a proposal to phase out the use of cages in Scotland’s laying hen sector
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
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15 Oct 2024
Answer published
The UK Government is committed to maintaining and improving animal welfare and wants to work closely with the farming sector to deliver high standards. Intergovernmental discussions between Defra and the devolved Governments on animal welfare matters are ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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