Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 84463
Dogs: Animal Breeding
Tabled: 22 October 2025
Answered: 30 October 2025
Question
Mr Will Forster
Liberal Democrat — Woking
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of improving (a) traceability and (b) transparency in dog breeding through strengthened (i) regulation and (ii) microchipping req
Answer
Dame Angela EagleDefra completed a Post-Implementation Review of the Licensing of Activities Involving Animals Regulations 2018, which regulate dog breeding. The Government is considering the findings and will be outlining more detail on next steps in due course. Compulso...
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