Question follow-through · 74820
Poultry: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the consultation on poultry catching and handling, which ended on 2 May 2025, what steps he is taking to ensure that the research project to study the impact of vario
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 3 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the consultation on poultry catching and handling, which ended on 2 May 2025, what steps he is taking to ensure that the research project to study the impact of vario
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Poultry catching summary of responses was published in June, and includes a summary of views on the research and how robust data could best be generated. As set out in the Government response to the public consultation, we have commissioned research t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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