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Animal Welfare

Asked by Dr Luke EvansConservativeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 4 December 2025UIN 95199

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps she has taken to consider legislative and non-legislative options to take forward changes to low-welfare activities abroad.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

The Animals (Low Welfare Activities Abroad) Act 2023 provides a framework for the introduction of future bans on the advertising and offering for sale, in England and Northern Ireland, of low-welfare animal activities abroad.

We continue to engage with stakeholders including the tourism industry and animal welfare groups to explore both legislative and non-legislative options to stop the advertising of low-welfare animal activities abroad.

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