Question follow-through · 119238
Poultry: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether a consultation on ending the routine culling of male chicks through in-ovo sexing is under consideration.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether a consultation on ending the routine culling of male chicks through in-ovo sexing is under consideration.
12 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2026
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 4 March 2026 to the hon. Member for York Central, PQ UIN 116174.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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