Animal Welfare 2024-05-09
2024-05-09
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Q1
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The question arises from the government's action plan for animal welfare published in 2021.
What steps his Department is taking to help improve animal welfare. Since the publication of the action plan, there have been several initiatives but concerns remain about ongoing efforts and progress.
This Government remain absolutely committed to implementing our action plan for animal welfare. Since the action plan was published in 2021, we have made significant progress on a whole raft of animal welfare measures, such as introducing tougher sentences on animal cruelty and new laws on animal sentience, bringing forward legislation to ban live exports and keeping primates as pets, launching the animal health and welfare pathway, ensuring the microchipping of cats, and backing critical legislation to crack down on puppy smuggling, pet abduction and livestock worrying.
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The specific ask was not directly addressed with concrete steps or commitments beyond general statements about ongoing work.
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Q2
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Pupils in Larch class at Three Bridges Primary School wrote to the MP expressing concern for the welfare and protection of endangered species.
I am grateful for that answer and, indeed, for all the animal welfare measures that this Government have introduced. Recently, pupils in Larch class at Three Bridges Primary School wrote to me very eloquently about their concern for the welfare and protection of endangered species. Can the Minister say a little more about what her Department is doing in that respect?
I thank my hon. Friend for that question, and indeed for his own work on animal welfare in this place, which has been impressive. I also thank the pupils of Larch class at Three Bridges Primary School. He can go back and tell them that this Government are absolutely committed to tackling this and to helping endangered species. We are actually the first Government to legislate to halt species decline in this country—as far as I know, no other country has done that anywhere in the world—and we have funds to save species.
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The specific ask was not directly addressed with concrete steps or commitments beyond general statements about ongoing work and future plans.
Response accuracy