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Agriculture: Animal Welfare

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a presumption of transparency in favour of routinely publishing farmed animal welfare inspection reports across all

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
28 Aug 2026
Target answer date
9 Sept 2026
Answer
9 Sept 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Aug 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a presumption of transparency in favour of routinely publishing farmed animal welfare inspection reports across all

  2. 9 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    The Government understands the importance of transparency in relation to the welfare of farmed animals. Multi Annual National Control Plan (MANCP) reports include national data on the number of farm inspections completed by APHA, the welfare scores from t...

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