Question follow-through · 59668
Offensive Weapons: Bexleyheath and Crayford
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to help tackle the use of catapults to maim (a) animals and (b) wildlife in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 12 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 19 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to help tackle the use of catapults to maim (a) animals and (b) wildlife in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency.
16 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 protects all wild birds and some wild animals in England and Wales. While the Act does not specifically include catapults in the list of weapons that a person must not use to kill wildlife, it is still illegal under t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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