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Pigs: Animal Housing |
| Question ID: |
1788962 |
| UIN: |
41584 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-26 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5058 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Juliet Campbell
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Juliet Campbell
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress he has made on discontinuing the use of gestation cages for pigs. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-02 |
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false |
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false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4382 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Daniel Zeichner
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| Answering Member handle: |
danielzeichner
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@danielzeichner
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| Answer text: |
We are firmly committed to maintaining and improving animal welfare and want to work closely with the farming sector to deliver high standards. The UK banned gestation crates (also known as sow stalls) in 1999. The use of farrowing crates for pigs is an i... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |