Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to prohibit the third party sale of puppies and kittens.

We have no plans for a ban on third party sellers. We are taking steps to ensure more robust licensing of pet sellers. To that end, new regulations on animal activity licensing will set statutory minimum welfare standards for all commercial pet sellers in England that the local authority must apply when considering whether to issue a licence.