I beg to move, That this House has considered the religious slaughter of farm animals.

My hon. Friend makes an important point. I will come to how other countries address this challenge.

I agree that adopting a German-style model, whereby we put in place the measures and mechanisms necessary to enforce something that has b

I will go on to advocate a package of measures to improve our law, having looked at the issue in some depth.

Labelling is indeed one option, which I was going to come to.

So-called mis-stunning is also an issue. I am not pretending that religious slaughter is the only welfare issue.

My hon.

We all support the work that Kew does and obviously want to support its estate strategy and the funding, but the point my hon.

What plans his Department has to support (a) rare and (b) native breeds in future agriculture policy.

I declare my interest in that my family are long-standing breeders of both the British Lop pig and pedigree South Devon cattle, but genet