Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 35597

Hunting: Foxes

Tabled: 4 March 2025
Answered: 19 March 2025
Named Day

Question

Neil Duncan-Jordan

Labour — Poole

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will commission a review into the prevalence of fox hunting across England and Wales.

Answer

Mary Creagh
Defra has no current plans to commission a review into the prevalence of foxhunting. The Hunting Act 2004 makes it an offence to hunt a wild mammal with dogs except where it is carried out in accordance with the exemptions in the Act. The full details of ...
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