Animal Housing
Commons · Question 118118 · Tabled 4 Mar 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 11 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by Jim Allister
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the (a) 2012 ban on conventional cages on the finances of producers with enriched colony cage systems and (b) five year transi
Answer
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 11 Mar 2026
The Government has carried out an assessment of the proposal to ban the keeping of laying hens, pullets in enriched colony cages and, as part of the consultation on laying hen cage reform, is seeking views on that assessment. The consultation also seeks a...