Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December 2022 to Question 98724 on Pigs: Animal Housing, what steps she has taken to explore the phasing out of farrowing crates; and if she will make it her policy to end their use as soon as possible.
It is the Government’s aim for farrowing crates to no longer be necessary and for any new systems to protect the welfare of the sow, as well as her piglets, as stated in Defra’s Code of Practice for the welfare of pigs (2020).