Question follow-through · 38565
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to introduce a national digital equine ID system.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 17 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
17 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to introduce a national digital equine ID system.
19 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2025
Answer published
This is a devolved matter, and the information provided therefore relates to England only. The Government recognises the importance of the equine sector to the UK economy and of improving equine identification. We have no current plans to implement mandat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Food Supply
1 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) strengthen national food security and (b) increase levels of domestic food production.
Food Supply
8 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2025 to Question 64014 on Food Supply, by what metrics his Department (a) measures and (b) forecasts annual domestic food production.