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Animal Welfare

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 912197, tabled on 25 July 2019

Question

Eddie Hughes
Conservative
Walsall North
Commons

What steps he is taking to prevent animal cruelty.

Answer

David Rutley
Conservative
Macclesfield
Commons

Answered on

25 July 2019

This Government is leading the way in promoting animal welfare by bringing forward legislation that will increase the maximum custodial penalty for animal cruelty in England from 6 months’ to 5 years’ imprisonment. We have also made it a requirement for all slaughterhouses to have CCTV; updated and improved the laws regulating dog breeding and pet sales; and banned the third party sale of puppies and kittens.

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