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Food Strategy Advisory Board
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to ensure that independent (a) environment experts, (b) health experts and (c) civil society groups are fully involved in the development of the National Fo
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 28 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 8 May 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
28 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to ensure that independent (a) environment experts, (b) health experts and (c) civil society groups are fully involved in the development of the National Fo
30 Apr 2025
Target answer date
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8 May 2025
Answer published
We are forming a partnership between government and stakeholders from across the food system as we develop the food strategy. This partnership includes academics, charities, key thinkers, civil society organisations and consumer groups as well as industry...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Cats and Dogs: Imports
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Cats and Dogs: Imports
1 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) dogs and (b) cats were imported non commercially under the PETS Directive in each month of 2024.
Poultry: Animal Housing
4 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to end the use of enriched cages for hens in England.
Animal Products: Labelling
22 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to introduce mandatory method-of-production labelling for animal products.
Animal Welfare: UK Trade with EU
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with EU negotiators on the inclusion of UK animal welfare standards within the proposed UK-EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement.
Hunting
21 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that trail hunting is not used for the illegal hunting of wild mammals with dogs.
Hunting: Animal Welfare
10 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the proposed consultation on banning trail hunting will allow submissions on family pets being killed by hunting hounds; and what plans she has to bring forward legislative pro
Animal Experiments
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Pigs: Animal Welfare
22 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help reduce the prevalence of tail docking on pigs.
Poultry: Animal Welfare
29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of the commercial viability of 'day-zero' systems where genetically edited breeding hens ensure only female layer chicks hatch, eliminatin
Livestock: Weather
2 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data her Department holds on the number of farmed animals that have required veterinary attention and/or died on-farm or in transport as a result of heat stress or other extreme w
Livestock: Weather
2 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the third UK Climate Change Risk Assessment's identification of risks to livestock from multiple climate hazards as a priority risk area, what steps her Department is