Question follow-through · 11607

Animal Welfare: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps her Department has taken to support research into animal sentience.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 22 Jun 2026
Target answer date: 24 Jun 2026
Answer: 29 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

22 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps her Department has taken to support research into animal sentience.
24 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jun 2026
Answer published
The most recent research Defra commissioned on animal sentience was an independent review by the London School of Economics on sentience in cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans. The findings from this comprehensive study underpinned this Government...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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