PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Animal Welfare: Codes of Practice (4 December 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2017 to Question 115879, what the timetable is for the publication of the updated statutory welfare codes for (a) meat (b) chickens (c) pigs (d) laying hens (e) cats (f) dogs and (g) horses.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

New statutory welfare codes for meat chickens, cats, dogs and horses will be laid in both Houses shortly. We will be consulting on new statutory welfare codes for laying hens and pigs in the new year.

Answered by:
George Eustice (Conservative)
13 December 2017