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Meat: Ritual Slaughter |
| Question ID: |
1755434 |
| UIN: |
23993 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-14 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5158 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Rupert Lowe
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Rupert Lowe
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to commission a study into the potential impact of Halal meat on animal welfare. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-03 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4382 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Daniel Zeichner
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| Answering Member handle: |
danielzeichner
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@danielzeichner
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| Answer text: |
Legislation requires that animals must be stunned prior to slaughter so that they are unconscious and insensible to pain. The only exception to the requirement to stun is where animals are slaughtered in accordance with religious rites. The Government wou... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |