Written questions

Poultry: Animal Welfare

Commons · Question 52223 · Tabled 14 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 21 May 2025

Question

Asked by Sammy Wilson

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of introducing a ban on male chick culling on the egg producing industry.

Answer

Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 21 May 2025

We are firmly committed to maintaining and improving animal welfare and want to work closely with the farming sector to deliver high standards. In its 2024 ‘Opinion on alternatives to culling newly hatched chicks in the egg and poultry industries’, the An...