Question follow-through · 107756
Slaughterhouses: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the 2024 Slaughter Sector Survey, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the number of [a] pigs, [b] chickens [c] cows and [d]
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 22 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 3 Feb 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the 2024 Slaughter Sector Survey, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the number of [a] pigs, [b] chickens [c] cows and [d]
26 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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3 Feb 2026
Answer published
Regulations require that animals must be stunned prior to slaughter so that they are unconscious and insensible to pain. The only exception to the requirement to stun is where animals are slaughtered in accordance with religious rites. The Government woul...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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