| Heading: |
Poultry: Animal Welfare |
| Question ID: |
1807501 |
| UIN: |
55934 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5201 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Victoria Collins
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| Asking Member handle: |
TweetingCollins
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@TweetingCollins
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing in-ovo sexing technologies within UK hatcheries. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-09 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
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. In its 2024 ‘Opinion on alternatives to culling newly hatched chicks in the egg and poultry industries’, the An... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |