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Animal Welfare: Pigs

Asked by Mark SewardsLabourDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 8 September 2026UIN 23719

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to enforce animal welfare regulations relating to the killing of piglets on commercial pig farms.

Answered by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer, on 4 June 2026 to PQ UIN 3739.

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