Question follow-through · 53335
Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to improve standards for kept animals.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 19 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to improve standards for kept animals.
21 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 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 is engaging with key animal welfare stakeholders as part of the development of our overarching approach to animal welf...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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