Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 53682

Hunting

Tabled: 20 May 2025
Answered: 27 May 2025

Question

Liz Jarvis

Liberal DemocratEastleigh

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress his Department has made on publishing a timeline to bring forward legislative measures to end trail hunting.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
The Hunting Act 2004 makes it an offence to hunt a wild mammal, such as Foxes, with dogs except where it is carried out in accordance with the exemptions in the Act. The aim of Trail Hunting is to simulate traditional hunting as practised before the Hunti...

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