Question follow-through · 80064
Poultry: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to introduce in-ovo sexing technology to end the routine culling of day-old male chicks in the UK egg industry.
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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
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to introduce in-ovo sexing technology to end the routine culling of day-old male chicks in the UK egg industry.
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Oct 2025
Answer published
We are firmly committed to maintaining and improving animal welfare and want to work closely with the farming sector to deliver high standards. In its 2024 ‘Opinion on alternatives to culling newly hatched chicks in the egg and poultry industries’, the An...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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