Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 76449

Seals: Animal Welfare

Tabled: 10 September 2025
Answered: 17 September 2025

Question

Perran Moon

LabourCamborne and Redruth

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of adding seals to Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.

Answer

Emma Hardy
The GB Statutory Nature Conservation Bodies (GBCBs) acting through the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) have carried out the latest quinquennial review of species afforded legal protection under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (WCA). JNCC ...

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