Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 58275
Animal Welfare: Licensing
Tabled: 9 June 2025
Answered: 16 June 2025
Question
Mr Richard Holden
Conservative — Basildon and Billericay
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his counterparts in the (a) Scottish, (b) Welsh and (c) Northern Irish governments on the potential merits of extending licensing requirement
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerAnimal welfare is a devolved matter in the UK. This means that responsibility for animal welfare policy in the individual nations is the responsibility of the relevant nation’s Ministers. Defra engages regularly with its counterparts in the devolved admin...
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