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Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Feb. 02 2024

Source Page: XL Bully payments - FOI2024/00066
Document: XL Bully payments - FOI2024/00066 (webpage)

Found: 2 pages Details Information regarding XL Bully payments as part of the offer to subsidise euthanasia

Lords Chamber
Holocaust Memorial Day - Fri 02 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) He wrote and spoke movingly about how his church initially supported the Nazis in euthanasia, then slowly - Speech Link

Select Committee
Correspondence from the Minister for Biosecurity, Animal Health and Welfare regarding the ban on XL bully dogs, dated 18 January 2024

Correspondence Jan. 30 2024

Committee: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Found: Veterinary capacity, neutering and euthanasia Ahead of launching the exemption and compensation

Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Jan. 29 2024

Source Page: Data related to XL Bully ban - FOI2024/00560
Document: Data related to XL Bully ban - FOI2024/00560 (webpage)

Found: 00560 PDF, 130 KB, 2 pages Details Number of requests for compensation towards the cost of euthanasia

Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Jan. 29 2024

Source Page: Data related to XL Bully ban - FOI2024/00560
Document: FOI response: Data related to XL Bully ban - FOI2024/00560 (PDF)

Found: − The number of requests for compensation towards the cost of euthanasia of XL bully type dogs received

Written Question
Dangerous Dogs: Solihull
Tuesday 16th January 2024

Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much his Department has issued in compensation to people who have given up their XL Bully dog to be euthanised in (a) Solihull constituency and (b) England.

Answered by Mark Spencer - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Defra has issued £12,200 in compensation for the euthanasia of XL Bully Dogs in England and Wales as of the 8th January 2024. Defra does not collate this data by constituency. Therefore, we are unable to provide the number of applications received from Solihull.

Bill Documents
16 Jan 2024 - Bill
Bill 056 2023-24 (as introduced)
Pets (Microchips) Bill 2023-24

Found: the pet for a microchip on first presentation and before any final decision is made on its euthanasia

Scottish Government Publication (FOI/EIR release)
Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate

Dec. 22 2023

Source Page: Exercise Holly report and Scottish Government involvement in disease related exercises: FOI release
Document: Exercise Ivy lessons identified draft report May 2022 - reviewed 25 Jan 2023 (PDF)

Found: The methods used at that time included euthanasia for piglets by lethal injection and then either free

Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
2nd reading - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) was so psychologically traumatised by witnessing the event that she eventually sought and received euthanasia - Speech Link

Select Committee
Correspondence to Rt Hon Lord Benyon MP regarding the Government’s ban on XL Bully dogs, dated 14 December 2023

Correspondence Dec. 14 2023

Committee: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Found: Veterinary capacity for neutering and euthanasia remains a concern .