Question follow-through · 98691
Poultry: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of ending the routine culling of day-old male chicks in the UK egg industry; and whether she plans to encourage the use of in-ovo sexing technol
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 16 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of ending the routine culling of day-old male chicks in the UK egg industry; and whether she plans to encourage the use of in-ovo sexing technol
11 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Dec 2025
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 9 July 2025 to the hon. Member for Stockport, PQ UIN 64121.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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