| Heading: |
Pigs: Animal Housing |
| Question ID: |
1810777 |
| UIN: |
58482 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-09 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5239 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Sarah Gibson
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Sarah Gibson
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department provides to support pig farmers in transitioning away from farrowing crates to free-farrowing systems. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-12 |
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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: |
The use of farrowing crates and other close confinement systems for farmed animals is an issue which the department is currently considering very carefully. At present there is no Government funding available to support pig farmers in transitioning away f... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |