Question follow-through · 61833
Hares: Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of banning the shooting of hares in their breeding season.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 21 Jul 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 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 banning the shooting of hares in their breeding season.
25 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Government considers the need for a close season for hares is justified more by animal welfare concerns than biodiversity and species conservation. In short, a close season should reduce the number of adult hares being shot in the breeding season, whi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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