| Heading: |
Partridges and Pheasants: Animal Housing |
| Question ID: |
1797667 |
| UIN: |
48387 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
3924 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Yasmin Qureshi
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| Asking Member handle: |
YasminQureshiMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@YasminQureshiMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to ban the use of cages for (a) pheasants and (b) partridges for breeding. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-08 |
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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, including for gamebirds, is an issu... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |