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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what resources are in place to implement the ban on hare coursing.

Local police forces are taking steps to address hare coursing and associated crimes. The role of locally elected Police and Crime Commissioners is to hold their forces to account, including on how they tackle the crimes that matter most to residents and businesses. The National Wildlife Crime Unit includes hare coursing as one of its priorities. In addition, the six police forces across the East of England have come together and are deploying Operation Galileo to tackle hare coursing.