Question follow-through · 128950
Domestic Animals: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to raise public awareness of the health risks associated with brachycephalic animals.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 21 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
21 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to raise public awareness of the health risks associated with brachycephalic animals.
23 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 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.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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