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Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many full time equivalent civil servants are working on animal welfare policy.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
2 Jul 2025
Answer
7 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many full time equivalent civil servants are working on animal welfare policy.

  2. 2 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    There are many civil servants across Defra that are responsible for multiple animal welfare policies, working flexibly according to business need. Civil Servants work across animal welfare, transforming farm animal health and welfare, wildlife and rural t...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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