Question follow-through · 58663
Zoos: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to improve the enforcement of zoo licensing.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 10 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to improve the enforcement of zoo licensing.
12 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Government published new Standards of Modern Zoo Practice for Great Britain on 24 May 2025. The Standards will come into force from May 2027 and will replace the current 2012 Secretary of State’s Standards of Modern Zoo Practice. One of the objectives...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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