Question follow-through · 40731
Animal Welfare: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to produce an animal protection strategy detailing steps to (a) increase animal welfare standards and (b) end the use of cages for farm animals.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 28 Mar 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to produce an animal protection strategy detailing steps to (a) increase animal welfare standards and (b) end the use of cages for farm animals.
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Mar 2025
Answer published
This Government was elected on a mandate to introduce the most ambitious plans to improve animal welfare in a generation. The Department has initiated a series of meetings with key stakeholders as part of the development of an overarching approach to anim...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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