Question follow-through · 82873
Animal Welfare: Offensive Weapons
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to help tackle the use of catapults by young people to harm pond wildlife in Surrey Heath constituency.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 23 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department is taking steps to help tackle the use of catapults by young people to harm pond wildlife in Surrey Heath constituency.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Government takes crimes against wildlife seriously and is aware of the ongoing and horrific misuse of catapults against wildlife. The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 protects all wild birds and some wild animals in England and Wales. It is illegal u...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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