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Pets: Theft

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 905838, tabled on 29 June 2023

Question

Eddie Hughes
Conservative
Walsall North
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to reduce pet theft.

Answer

Trudy Harrison
Conservative
Copeland
Commons

Answered on

7 July 2023

While stealing a pet is already a criminal offence under the Theft Act 1968, we understand the devastating impact that the theft of a pet can have. That is why we intend to legislate to make pet abduction a specific offence, building on the recent work of the Pet Theft Taskforce to clamp down on this heartless crime.

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