Question follow-through · 114322
Livestock Industry: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of ending temporary concessionary visas for sheep shearers on sheep welfare.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 20 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 3 Mar 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
20 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of ending temporary concessionary visas for sheep shearers on sheep welfare.
3 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2026
Answer published
Defra recognises the importance that shearing sheep plays in managing the health and welfare of around 30m sheep in the UK flock, and the continued challenges that the industry faces each year in sourcing sufficient numbers of trained shearers. The depart...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Fly-tipping: Rural Areas
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to reduce fly tipping in rural areas.
Agriculture: UK Trade with EU
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Pigs: Slaughterhouses
13 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether an assessment has been made of the potential merits of launching a public consultation into the use of high concentration carbon dioxide for slaughtering pigs.