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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to improve data collection of attacks on domestic animals with a) air weapons, b) catapults and c) other weapons.

This Government does not collect data on attacks on domestic animals by specific weapon type. The department has no plans to introduce separate data collection for attacks involving air weapons, catapults or other weapons.