Question follow-through · 111978
Pigs and Poultry: Animal Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's proposed timeline is for banning cages in relation to hens and pigs.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 9 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 12 Feb 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's proposed timeline is for banning cages in relation to hens and pigs.
11 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Feb 2026
Answer published
The recently published Animal Welfare Strategy sets out that ending the use of cages and crates is a key priority for this Government.We are currently consulting on a proposed timeline to ban the instalment of new enriched ‘colony’ cages for the keeping o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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