Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 3428
Animal Welfare Committee
Tabled: 30 August 2024
Answered: 9 September 2024
Question
Alex Mayer
Labour — Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his Department's policy that deliberate cruelty against companion animals is a standing item on the agenda of the Animal Welfare Committee.
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerCausing unnecessary suffering to an animal is an offence under Section 4 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006. In 2021, the maximum sentence for this offence was increased to five years imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine. The Government can seek independent,...
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