Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 63702
Cats and Dogs: Tagging
Tabled: 30 June 2025
Answered: 7 July 2025
Question
Steve Darling
Liberal Democrat — Torbay
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many FTE civil servants his Department has allocated to work on developing a single point of search for the microchip database for (a) dogs and (b) cats.
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerThere are many civil servants across Defra that are responsible for multiple animal welfare policies, working flexibly according to business need. Civil Servants work across animal welfare, transforming farm animal health and welfare, wildlife and rural t...
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