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Animal Housing

Commons · Question 47556 · Tabled 23 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 29 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Vikki Slade

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

Answer

Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 29 Apr 2025

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...