Question follow-through · 49890
Animal Housing: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department provides to farmers for laying hens.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 1 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 13 May 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
1 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department provides to farmers for laying hens.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 May 2025
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 Laying Hen Housing for Health and Welfare Grant was recently offered to commercial laying hen and pullet ke...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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