Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 55671

Livestock Worrying: Staffordshire

Tabled: 30 May 2025
Answered: 9 June 2025

Question

Adam Jogee

Labour — Newcastle-under-Lyme

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to tackle livestock worrying in (a) Newcastle-under-Lyme and (b) Staffordshire.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
This Government recognises the distress livestock worrying can cause animals and their keepers. The Government is supporting a Private Members’ Bill which will amend and update the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953. The Bill will modernise definitio...
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