Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 61830

Hunting Act 2004

Tabled: 23 June 2025
Answered: 30 June 2025

Question

Gavin Robinson

Democratic Unionist PartyBelfast East

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will strengthen the provisions of the Hunting Act 2004.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
This Government was elected on a mandate to introduce the most ambitious plans in a generation to improve animal welfare and that is exactly what we will do. The Hunting Act 2004 makes it an offence to hunt a wild mammal with dogs, except where it is carr...

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