Question follow-through · 121891
Poultry: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure the competitiveness of British egg producers in the context of the proposed ban on keeping laying hens, pullets and breeder layers in cages.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure the competitiveness of British egg producers in the context of the proposed ban on keeping laying hens, pullets and breeder layers in cages.
23 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2026
Answer published
In preparation for the recent consultation on laying hen cage reform, the Government carried out an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed reforms to laying hen welfare policy on UK egg producers and, as part of the consultation, sought views ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Litter: Rural Areas
4 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle littering in rural areas.
Incinerators: Health Hazards
15 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress the Environment Agency has made to determine whether emissions from incinerators have an adverse impact on public health in the last 25 years.
Hill Farming: South Shropshire
18 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support upland farmers in South Shropshire constituency.
Agriculture: Countryside
22 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action is being taken to support farming in protected landscapes.
Public Sector: Food
26 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what percentage of food procured in the public sector is produced domestically.