Question follow-through · 121574
Poultry: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what timeline and industry roadmap he has established for ending male chick culling.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 17 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 23 Mar 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what timeline and industry roadmap he has established for ending male chick culling.
19 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Government has set out in the recently published Animal Welfare Strategy that it will encourage the egg industry to move away from the practice of killing day-old chicks. The Government will discuss with them a roadmap to reach the objective of ending...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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