Question follow-through · 12921
Livestock: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to establish a centralised system for publishing farmed animal welfare indicators, including mortality data.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 1 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Environment and energy
- Pigs: Animal Welfare · 28 Aug 2026
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Recorded timeline
24 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to establish a centralised system for publishing farmed animal welfare indicators, including mortality data.
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Government is not establishing a centralised system and already publishes indicators relevant to farmed animal welfare, for example, the percentage of eggs coming from different laying hen production systems. The Food Standards Agency separately publi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Pigs: Animal Welfare
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to enforce animal welfare regulations relating to the killing of piglets on commercial pig farms.
Air Pollution
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what mechanisms are available for members of the public to report concerns about (a) persistent aircraft trails, (b) air quality and (c) atmospheric pollution.