Question follow-through · 51791
Livestock: Animal Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timeline is for launching a consultation on the phasing out of the use of cages for farm animals.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 13 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 May 2025
- Answer
- 21 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timeline is for launching a consultation on the phasing out of the use of cages for farm animals.
15 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 May 2025
Answer published
I refer the Hon. Member to the reply previously given to the hon. Member for Mid Dorset and North Poole, Vikki Slade, on 29 April 2025, PQ 47556.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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