questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what consideration her Department has given to the potential merits of requiring the use of effective pain relief when tail docking or castration is carried out on lambs.
answerText: The Government considered the Animal Welfare Committee’s Opinion on the Implications of Castration and Tail Docking for the Welfare of Lambs including the scientific evidence prior to issuing a UK-wide consultation on proposals to improve the welfare of l...
heading: Sheep: Animal Welfare