Question follow-through · 126211
Furs: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to ban the sale of fur.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 10 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 16 Apr 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to ban the sale of fur.
14 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Apr 2026
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to Steve Witherden on 31 March 2026, PQ UIN 122919.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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