Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will publish best practice guidelines for people carrying out the control agreements and orders introduced under the Infrastructure Act 2015 to ensure that animals are killed in the most humane way possible.

We will be consulting publicly later this year on the code of practice that accompanies these measures. The code will include guidance on the standards of animal welfare to be met in connection with species control agreements and orders.