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Animal Housing

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 593, tabled on 18 July 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will (a) make an assessment of the potential merits of banning the use of farrowing crates and (b) hold a public consultation on such a ban.

Answered on

23 July 2024

We are firmly committed to maintaining and improving animal welfare and will work closely with the farming sector to deliver high standards.

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