| Heading: |
Pigs: Animal Welfare |
| Question ID: |
1811252 |
| UIN: |
58850 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-10 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5290 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Leigh Ingham
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| Asking Member handle: |
LeighInghamMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@LeighInghamMP
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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 impact of farrowing crates on the welfare of pigs. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-17 |
| 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 remain firmly committed to maintaining and improving animal welfare and want to work closely with the farming sector to deliver high standards. Defra’s statutory welfare Code of Practice for Pigs states that the aim is for farrowing crates to no longer... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |