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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reasons SAC Commercial Ltd were chosen to undertake the study on whether cage-based breeding can meet the needs of game birds.

This project was commissioned through open tender.

The SAC proposal was identified as best fitting the policy, scientific and value for money requirements of the research call, based on independent academic and internal peer reviews. The SAC proposal was later revised to reduce the costs and the proposal was peer-reviewed and deemed to be of high quality and represent value for money.