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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's policies on the pig industry’s installation of flexible immobilisation cages.

As stated in the Animal Welfare Strategy, the Government wants to work with the industry so that it ends the use of pig farrowing crates and transitions to alternative systems. An impact assessment will be drafted in preparation for a consultation on this issue.