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Assistance Animals

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure adequate regulation of charities who supply assistance dogs.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 1 Jun 2026
Target answer date: 3 Jun 2026
Answer: 9 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

1 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure adequate regulation of charities who supply assistance dogs.
3 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 2026
Answer published
Standards for assistance dogs are currently and historically maintained on the basis of a voluntary regulatory framework. Several UK charities and organisations are accredited to recognised international standards for assistance dogs. Assistance dogs are ...

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