Question follow-through · 89871
Animal Welfare: Offensive Weapons
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2025 to Question 66600 on Slingshots: Regulation, what steps her Department is taking to strengthen the laws to protect wildlife from attacks with (a)
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 11 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jan 2026 · 52 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2025 to Question 66600 on Slingshots: Regulation, what steps her Department is taking to strengthen the laws to protect wildlife from attacks with (a)
13 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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2 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Government takes crimes against wildlife seriously, including those involving the use of catapults and slingshots. Although these are not listed as prohibited weapons in the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, within this legislation, as well as the Wi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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