Question follow-through · 61454
Dogs: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of creating a registration system for pet dogs.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 19 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 27 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
19 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of creating a registration system for pet dogs.
23 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Jun 2025
Answer published
We have no plans currently to introduce a registration system for pet dogs. Since 2016, all dogs over eight weeks old must be microchipped and registered with a compliant database. A separate registration system for pet dogs is therefore not necessary.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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