Question follow-through · 124362
Domestic Animals: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of social media and advertising on demand for brachycephalic breeds.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 14 Apr 2026 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of social media and advertising on demand for brachycephalic breeds.
13 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Apr 2026
Answer published
Dog breeders licensed under the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) Regulations are prohibited from breeding dogs if it can be reasonably expected that on the basis of their genotype, phenotype or health, this would lead to welfare ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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