Question follow-through · 23662
Animal Welfare
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.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
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.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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9 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Animal Welfare Strategy sets out the priority issues that this Government will address, focusing on the changes and improvements that Defra aim to achieve by 2030 to improve the lives of millions of animals across the UK. The Government is determined ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Bluetongue Disease: Disease Control
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