Question follow-through · 22398
Cats and Dogs: Animal Breeding
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of breeding for extreme conformations on the health and welfare of (a) dogs and (b) cats.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 7 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 14 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of breeding for extreme conformations on the health and welfare of (a) dogs and (b) cats.
9 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jan 2025
Answer published
To provide a detailed scientific view on the range of issues faced by breeding dogs and cats, the Department commissioned two Opinions from the Government’s Animal Welfare Committee. One Opinion assesses the welfare implications of specialised canine repr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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