Question follow-through · 114573
Animal Experiments
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help ensure cross-government coordination and policy alignment with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s strategy to support the developm
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 20 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 27 Feb 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Environment and energy
- Pigs: Animal Welfare · 22 Apr 2026
- Poultry: Animal Welfare · 29 May 2026
- Livestock: Weather · 2 Jul 2026
- Livestock: Weather · 2 Jul 2026
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
20 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help ensure cross-government coordination and policy alignment with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s strategy to support the developm
24 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Feb 2026
Answer published
Defra is working together with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) in relation to those priorities, targets and commitments in DSIT’s Strategy to Support the Development, Validation and Uptake of Alternative Methods whose implemen...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Pigs: Animal Welfare
22 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help reduce the prevalence of tail docking on pigs.
Poultry: Animal Welfare
29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has made an assessment of the commercial viability of 'day-zero' systems where genetically edited breeding hens ensure only female layer chicks hatch, eliminatin
Livestock: Weather
2 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data her Department holds on the number of farmed animals that have required veterinary attention and/or died on-farm or in transport as a result of heat stress or other extreme w
Livestock: Weather
2 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the third UK Climate Change Risk Assessment's identification of risks to livestock from multiple climate hazards as a priority risk area, what steps her Department is