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Livestock: Animal Housing

Asked by Ian ByrneLabourDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 29 October 2025UIN 83960

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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to bring forward a public consultation on (a) banning the use of cages and (b) close confinement systems for farmed animals; and if she will make it her po

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 29 April 2025 to the hon. Member for Mid Dorset and North Poole, PQ UIN 47556.

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