Livestock: Animal Welfare
Commons · Question 84312 · Tabled 22 Oct 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 31 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Ruth Jones
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Animal and Plant Health Agency's guidance entitled Animal welfare on farms inspection, published on 12 January 2016, requiring compl
Answer
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 31 Oct 2025
APHA carries out inspections for a number of different reasons, including (but not limited to) in case of allegation of poor animal welfare on farm. Any allegations of poor animal welfare are logged and assessed. Where there are non-compliances with the r...