Question follow-through · 108813
Slaughterhouses: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what consideration her Department has given to banning non-stun slaughter of animals.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 27 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 3 Feb 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what consideration her Department has given to banning non-stun slaughter of animals.
29 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Feb 2026
Answer published
Regulations require that animals must be stunned prior to slaughter so that they are unconscious and insensible to pain, and the only exception is where animals are slaughtered in accordance with religious rites. The Government would prefer all animals to...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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