Question follow-through · 38955
Livestock: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the use of argon gas in the slaughter of livestock.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the use of argon gas in the slaughter of livestock.
20 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Government encourages the highest standards of animal welfare at slaughter. A post implementation review of The Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (England) Regulations 2015 is underway and should be completed this year There are long standing ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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