{"value":{"id":1843652,"askingMemberId":4831,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-10-21T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-10-23T00:00:00","uin":"83960","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to bring forward a public consultation on (a) banning the use of cages and (b) close confinement systems for farmed animals; and if she will make it her policy to phase out those practices.","answeringBodyId":13,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":491,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-10-29T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 29 April 2025 to the hon. Member for Mid Dorset and North Poole, <a href=\"https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fquestions-statements.parliament.uk%2Fwritten-questions%2Fdetail%2F2025-04-23%2F47556&amp;data=05%7C02%7CDaniel.Grimwade%40defra.gov.uk%7C98ec6dbd24d44a6758ef08de1215bb17%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638968081702628965%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=jCjK9nWU9MwTxvXfaQ%2F83CdSB%2Biev5csQYjazOAocH4%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\">PQ UIN 47556</a>.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Livestock: Animal Housing","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1843652","method":"GET"}]}