Question follow-through · 124076
Poultry: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she plans to take to encourage industry to stop the practice of culling male laying hen chicks.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 14 Apr 2026 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she plans to take to encourage industry to stop the practice of culling male laying hen chicks.
13 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Apr 2026
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 21 January 2026 to the hon. Member for Mid Dorset and North Poole, PQ UIN 105878.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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