Question follow-through · 13430
Sheep: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to prohibit the routine castration and tail docking of lambs.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 25 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 2 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to prohibit the routine castration and tail docking of lambs.
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jul 2026
Answer published
A consultation on lamb castration and tail docking closed on 9 March. The proposals the Government consulted on did not include a ban on the use of castration and tail docking. Instead, the Government proposed that, where a procedure is considered to be n...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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