Question follow-through · 83442
Animal Welfare: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps is she taking to increase the amount of animal welfare data published by the Animal and Plant Health Agency.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 20 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 27 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps is she taking to increase the amount of animal welfare data published by the Animal and Plant Health Agency.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Animal and Plant Health Agency hold all the data related to its regulatory activity on animal welfare; they are extrapolated and made available regularly from the databases held by the relevant teams for reporting purposes. APHA has a continuing commi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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