Question follow-through · 6906
Poultry: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made for the implications for her policies of recent bans on male chick culling in (a) Germany, (b) France and (c) Austria.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 4 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made for the implications for her policies of recent bans on male chick culling in (a) Germany, (b) France and (c) Austria.
8 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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9 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Government is aware of the strong public feeling on the culling of male chicks. The Animal Welfare Strategy for England, published in December 2025, sets out that the Government would like to see an end to the practice of killing day-old chicks and is...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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