Question follow-through · 82807
Pigs: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to enforce the ban on piglet thumping.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 24 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to enforce the ban on piglet thumping.
21 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Oct 2025
Answer published
Any allegations of poor animal welfare are investigated by the Animal and Plant Health Agency, and where there are non-compliances with the regulations, appropriate action is taken. The local authority, as an appropriate enforcement agency, may initiate p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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