Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 2086

Postal Workers: Dangerous Dogs

Tabled: 29 July 2024
Answered: 2 September 2024

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking with the Secretary of State for the Home Department to help prevent dog attacks on postal workers.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Responsibility for dog control is devolved in Scotland and Northern Ireland. In England and Wales, owners whose dogs are dangerously out of control are breaking the law and the maximum penalty is a custodial sentence of up to 14 years. This includes in re...
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