Pigs: Animal Housing
Commons · Question 41584 · Tabled 26 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Juliet Campbell
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress he has made on discontinuing the use of gestation cages for pigs.
Answer
Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 2 Apr 2025
We are firmly committed to maintaining and improving animal welfare and want to work closely with the farming sector to deliver high standards. The UK banned gestation crates (also known as sow stalls) in 1999. The use of farrowing crates for pigs is an i...