Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 58663

Zoos: Licensing

Tabled: 10 June 2025
Answered: 17 June 2025

Question

Sarah Champion

LabourRotherham

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to improve the enforcement of zoo licensing.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
The Government published new Standards of Modern Zoo Practice for Great Britain on 24 May 2025. The Standards will come into force from May 2027 and will replace the current 2012 Secretary of State’s Standards of Modern Zoo Practice. One of the objectives...

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