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(asked on 6th July 2022) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether it remains his Department's policy to ban hand-held remote controlled e-collar devices following the 2018 review of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 which recommended a ban on those devices.


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Steve Double
This question was answered on 27th July 2022

The proposed ban on the use of electric shock collars controlled by hand-held devices was developed after considering a broad range of factors, including the effects of such a ban. When considered alongside the academic research, the public consultation responses, and direct engagement with the sector, the Government concluded that these devices present a risk to the welfare of dogs and cats and that their use should be prohibited.

We continue to work closely with the animal welfare sector, enforcement agencies and Governments across the four nations on this ban, which will be made via secondary legislation under the Animal Welfare Act 2006. The legislation needed to ban electric shock collars controlled by hand-held devices in England will be laid before Parliament as soon as Parliamentary time allows.

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