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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the study commissioned by her Department in 2009 to provide scientific evidence on whether cage-based breeding for pheasants and partridges can fully meet birds' needs will be published.

No estimate has been made of the number of game farms using un-enriched cages for breeding partridges in breach of the Code of Practice for the Welfare of Gamebirds Reared for Sporting Purposes.

However, four game farms have been inspected as a result of welfare concerns since June 2014. The Defra funded research into cage-based breeding for game birds will be published in due course and will be used to help inform the review of the gamebirds code of practice.