Animal Welfare: Sentencing

(asked on 1st May 2018) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the timetable is for his Department to introduce legislative proposals to raise the maximum sentence for animal cruelty to five years; and whether his Department plans to do this by means of primary legislation.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 8th May 2018

The Government proposes to introduce legislation to increase the maximum penalty for animal cruelty offences as soon as Parliamentary time permits.

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