Question follow-through · 20601

Nature Conservation: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of making wildlife crimes notifiable offences.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
17 Dec 2024
Target answer date
19 Dec 2024
Answer
27 Dec 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of making wildlife crimes notifiable offences.

  2. 19 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    Wildlife crime can have devastating consequences for our natural environments and countryside communities. This Government is committed to reducing crime in rural areas and anyone exploiting or deliberately harming British wildlife should face the full fo...

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