Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 24493
Assistance Animals: Animal Welfare
Tabled: 16 January 2025
Answered: 24 January 2025
Question
Carla Lockhart
Democratic Unionist Party — Upper Bann
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure the protection of assistance animals from abuse and neglect; and what additional steps he plans to take to improve safeguards for the
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerCausing unnecessary suffering to an animal, including assistance animals, is an offence under section 4 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006. The maximum sentence for this offence is five years imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine. Those convicted of an offen...
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