Question follow-through · 7849
Cats: Animal Breeding
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure welfare standards in cat breeding.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 8 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 15 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure welfare standards in cat breeding.
10 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Oct 2024
Answer published
Under the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018 (the Regulations), anyone in the business of breeding and selling cats as pets needs to have a valid licence issued by their local authority. Licensees must me...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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