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Pigs: Animal Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish a consultation on phasing out the use of farrowing crates for pigs.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
10 Oct 2025
Target answer date
14 Oct 2025
Answer
20 Oct 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish a consultation on phasing out the use of farrowing crates for pigs.

  2. 14 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 2 April 2025 to the hon. Member for Birmingham Northfield, PQ UIN 41698.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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