Question follow-through · 70099
Assistance Animals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to give emotional support animals the same legal status as guide dogs.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 22 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 2 Sept 2025 · 42 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to give emotional support animals the same legal status as guide dogs.
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Sept 2025
Answer published
Standards for assistance dogs are currently and historically maintained on the basis of a voluntary regulatory framework. There is no specific legislation for the regulation of assistance dogs and no legislation is planned. There are recognised standards ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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