Question follow-through · 49163
Dangerous Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of dog bites have been recorded in the most recent 12 month period for which data is available.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 29 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 May 2025
- Answer
- 8 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of dog bites have been recorded in the most recent 12 month period for which data is available.
1 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 May 2025
Answer published
The latest available data for the year ending December 2024 showed that there were 31,345 offences of an “Owner or person in charge allowing dog to be dangerously out of control in any place in England or Wales (whether or not a public place) injuring any...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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