Question follow-through · 57483
Rescue Services: Dogs and Cats
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to regulate dog and cat rescue services.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 4 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 12 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to regulate dog and cat rescue services.
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jun 2025
Answer published
Rescue and rehoming establishments in England must provide for the five basic welfare needs of the animals set out in the Animal Welfare Act 2006.This Government will introduce the most ambitious plan to improve animal welfare in a generation. The Departm...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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