Question follow-through · 14550
Sheep: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what consideration her Department has given to the potential merits of requiring the use of effective pain relief when tail docking or castration is carried out on lambs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 30 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 3 Jul 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
30 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what consideration her Department has given to the potential merits of requiring the use of effective pain relief when tail docking or castration is carried out on lambs.
2 Jul 2026
Target answer date
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3 Jul 2026
Answer published
The Government considered the Animal Welfare Committee’s Opinion on the Implications of Castration and Tail Docking for the Welfare of Lambs including the scientific evidence prior to issuing a UK-wide consultation on proposals to improve the welfare of l...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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