United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 41584
Pigs: Animal Housing
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26 March 2025
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2 April 2025 · Answer
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Housing
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2 April 2025
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress he has made on discontinuing the use of gestation cages for pigs.
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26 March 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress he has made on discontinuing the use of gestation cages for pigs.
Source: Commons
2 April 2025
Answer
We are firmly committed to maintaining and improving animal welfare and want to work closely with the farming sector to deliver high standards. The UK banned gestation crates (also known as sow stalls) in 1999. The use of farrowing crates for pigs is an i...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-03-26/41584
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1788962
- uk · wq-1788962 · source updated 2 April 2025