Question follow-through · 8744
Aquariums and Zoos: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department last updated rules for (a) zoos and (b) aquariums on animal welfare.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 11 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 18 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department last updated rules for (a) zoos and (b) aquariums on animal welfare.
16 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Secretary of State's Standards of Modern Zoo Practice were last updated in 2012. Defra is currently in the process of updating these standards, to ensure all animals in zoos and aquariums are kept in conditions that reflect latest best practice. The d...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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