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Animal Welfare: Crime

Asked by Graeme DownieLabourDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 19 March 2026UIN 121144

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many bans on animal ownership have been imposed by Courts in each of the last five years.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

Animal health and welfare is a devolved matter. For England, the information requested is not held centrally.

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