Question follow-through · 105878
Poultry: Animal welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to encourage industry to end the practice of culling male laying hen chicks; and if she will publish a timetable for taking these steps.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 14 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 21 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to encourage industry to end the practice of culling male laying hen chicks; and if she will publish a timetable for taking these steps.
20 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jan 2026
Answer published
As stated in the recently published Animal Welfare Strategy1 the Government welcomes the UK egg industry’s interest in the development of day zero sexing technology. There has been rapid global progress in a range of technologies that could help end the ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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