Question follow-through · 16779
Livestock: Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a requirement for farmed animal mortality data to be published on publicly accessible platforms.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 7 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 14 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
7 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a requirement for farmed animal mortality data to be published on publicly accessible platforms.
13 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jul 2026
Answer published
ID and traceability regulations require keepers to report cattle deaths to the relevant government system and sheep and goat deaths in on-farm holding registers. At present there are no plans to publish farmed animal mortality data. Defra will, however, c...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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