Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 78498

Nature Conservation: Crime

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 17 October 2025

Question

Ruth Jones

LabourNewport West and Islwyn

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to consolidate wildlife legislation into a single statute that would provide equal prot

Answer

Mary Creagh
Defra recognises the view of many stakeholders that the complexity and disparate nature of wildlife legislation is a factor in the challenges experienced in successfully prosecuting wildlife offences. The overriding recommendation of the 2015 Law Commissi...

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