| Heading: |
Animal Housing |
| Question ID: |
1796282 |
| UIN: |
47556 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-23 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5327 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Vikki Slade
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| Asking Member handle: |
vikkislade72
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@vikkislade72
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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 ban the use of (a) cages for (i) laying hens and (ii) other animals and (b) close confinement systems for (A) sows and calves and (B) other animals in farming |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-29 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
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: |
We remain firmly committed to maintaining and improving animal welfare and want to work closely with the farming sector to deliver high standards. The use of cages and other close confinement systems for farmed animals is an issue which we are currently c... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |