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Livestock: Animal Housing

Asked by Ian ByrneLabourDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 15 November 2024UIN 13031

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies on animal welfare of the use of cages in farming.

Answered by Daniel Zeichner

We remain firmly committed to maintaining and improving animal welfare and want to work closely with the farming sector to deliver high standards.

The use of cages and other close confinement systems for farmed animals is an issue which we are fully considering.

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