Question follow-through · 69098
Zoos: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the capacity of local authorities to enforce regulations on zoo licensing.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 18 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 1 Sept 2025 · 45 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the capacity of local authorities to enforce regulations on zoo licensing.
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Government published new Standards of Modern Zoo Practice for Great Britain on 24 May 2025, which will come into force from May 2027. One of the objectives of updating the Standards has been to make requirements clearer to aid local authority enforcem...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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