Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 182654
Elephants: Animal Welfare
Tabled: 25 April 2023
Answered: 3 May 2023
Question
Tulip Siddiq
Labour — Hampstead and Highgate
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to take steps to ban the advertisement of low welfare elephant tourism venues.
Answer
The Government is supporting the Animals (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) Private Members Bill introduced to this House by Angela Richardson MP on 20 June 2022. The Bill will allow the introduction of regulations banning the advertising and the offering for sale in England and Northern Ireland, of specific low-welfare animal activities which are undertaken abroad. This could include low-welfare elephant activities abroad. The Bill has successfully passed through this House.