Question follow-through · 122797
Animal Welfare: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has she made of the potential merits of expanding the Police's right of disclosure to include incidents of animal abuse.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 23 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 13 Apr 2026 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has she made of the potential merits of expanding the Police's right of disclosure to include incidents of animal abuse.
13 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Apr 2026
Answer published
The Police National Computer holds all relevant information for prosecutions made for animal cruelty offences under the Animal Welfare Act 2006. Certain organisations, including non-police public bodies such as the Disclosure and Barring Service and the C...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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