Question follow-through · 81729
Animal Housing: Livestock
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her Department's planned timetable is for publishing its Animal Welfare Strategy; and if she will make it her policy to ensure that the Animal Welfare Strategy includes steps to e
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 13 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 20 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
13 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her Department's planned timetable is for publishing its Animal Welfare Strategy; and if she will make it her policy to ensure that the Animal Welfare Strategy includes steps to e
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Oct 2025
Answer published
We remain firmly committed to maintaining and improving animal welfare and want to work closely with the farming sector to deliver high standards. The use of cages for farmed animals is an issue which we are currently considering very carefully. This gove...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Food: Labelling
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Food Supply
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Written question 30196
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