Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 39271
Livestock: Disease Control
Tabled: 18 March 2025
Answered: 26 March 2025
Question
Richard Tice
Reform UK — Boston and Skegness
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to improve livestock (a) registration and (b) inspection, in the context of (i) avian influenza and (ii) the recommendations in Dame Glenys Stacey's
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerSince the 1 September 2024 in Scotland and 1 October 2024 in England and Wales registration has been a legal requirement for anyone owning poultry or other captive birds, with the exception of certain psittacines and passerines, even if only kept as pets....
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