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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to ban e-collars.

This is a devolved matter and the information provided therefore relates to England only.

One of the key reforms in the Action Plan for Animal Welfare is to ban hand-held remote-controlled electronic training collars (“e-collars”), given their scope to harm the welfare of dogs, including those deemed reactive. We continue to work closely with the animal welfare sector, enforcement agencies and Governments across the four nations on this ban.

The ban will be made via secondary legislation under the Animal Welfare Act 2006. The legislation needed to ban remote controlled electronic training collars in England will be laid before Parliament as soon as Parliamentary time allows.