Question follow-through · 14071
Pigs: Slaughterhouses
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to implement the policy recommendations of the Animal Welfare Committee's independent report into the carbon dioxide gas stunning of pigs, publis
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 29 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 3 Jul 2026 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to implement the policy recommendations of the Animal Welfare Committee's independent report into the carbon dioxide gas stunning of pigs, publis
1 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jul 2026
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell, Helen Maguire, on 20 May 2026 to PQ UIN 613.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Animal Welfare
8 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to implement the findings of the December 2024 Court of Appeal ruling on animal welfare practices that breach the Welfare of Farmed Animals (England
Animal Welfare
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress her Department has made on the next steps laid out in the Animal Welfare Strategy for England, published on December 2025.
Bluetongue Disease: Disease Control
14 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential financial impact of bluetongue virus on livestock farms; and whether she plans to provide additional financial support to farmers facing f