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Animal Welfare: Sentencing

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 70220, tabled on 13 April 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average sentence served has been by people convicted of animal cruelty in each of the last five years.

Answered on

25 April 2017

The table below provides the average custodial sentence length for offences under s4 (causing unnecessary suffering) of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 for each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Year

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Average custodial sentence length (months)

3.1

3.4

3.5

3.1

3.3