Question follow-through · 105015
Animal Breeding: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help reduce the breeding of animals who are genetically predisposed to brachycephaly.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 12 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 20 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
12 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to help reduce the breeding of animals who are genetically predisposed to brachycephaly.
19 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jan 2026
Answer published
Under The Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018 anyone breeding dogs and advertising a business of selling dogs and/or who breeds three or more litters of puppies in a twelve-month period must have a licence...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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