Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 116212

Animal Welfare: Slough

Tabled: 26 February 2026
Answered: 4 March 2026

Question

Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

LabourSlough

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to help tackle the use of catapults to injure wildlife in Slough constituency.

Answer

Mary Creagh
The Government takes crimes against wildlife seriously, including those involving the use of catapults, in Slough or anywhere else in the country. Although catapults are not listed as prohibited weapons in the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, within thi...

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