Question follow-through · 9753
Roads: Accidents
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to introduce a duty to report car collisions with cats.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 15 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 17 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 23 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to introduce a duty to report car collisions with cats.
17 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jun 2026
Answer published
There are no plans to introduce a legal duty for drivers to report collisions with cats. Because cats are much smaller than other specified animals, and often most active at dawn or dusk, in many cases drivers may not be aware they’ve hit them – particula...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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