Question follow-through · 1108
Poultry: Animal Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps will be taken to ensure that imports of eggs, liquid eggs and powdered eggs meet UK animal welfare standards, in the context of any phase-out of caged systems domestically.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 14 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 May 2026
- Answer
- 27 May 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps will be taken to ensure that imports of eggs, liquid eggs and powdered eggs meet UK animal welfare standards, in the context of any phase-out of caged systems domestically.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 May 2026
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the response given on 18 March 2026 to the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend for PQ UIN 120331.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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