Question follow-through · 20407
Deer: Hunting
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will review the use of exemptions within the Hunting Act 2004 for stag hunting.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 14 Jan 2025 · 29 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will review the use of exemptions within the Hunting Act 2004 for stag hunting.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jan 2025
Answer published
This Government was elected on a mandate to introduce the most ambitious plans in a generation to improve animal welfare and that is exactly what we will do. The Government has already committed to a ban on trail hunting which will provide significant pro...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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