Question follow-through · 11121
Poultry: Animal Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to launch a consultation on phasing out cages for layer hens.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 24 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 31 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to launch a consultation on phasing out cages for layer hens.
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 2024
Answer published
We are firmly committed to maintaining and improving animal welfare and want to work closely with the farming sector to deliver high standards. The use of enriched ‘colony’ cages for laying hens is an issue we will want to fully consider in due course.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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