Poultry: Animal Welfare
Commons · Question 64121 · Tabled 1 Jul 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Navendu Mishra
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for publication of the animal welfare strategy; and if he will make it his Department's policy to ban male chick culling as part of the strategy.
Answer
Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 9 Jul 2025
This Government was elected on a mandate to introduce the most ambitious plans to improve animal welfare in a generation. The Prime Minister announced that we will be publishing an animal welfare strategy later this year. We are firmly committed to mainta...