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Select Committee
Formal Minutes 2019-21: List of closed petitions

Formal Minutes Nov. 18 2021

Committee: Petitions Committee

Found: 60. 68 is too late.


Closed Petition closed 1st April 2021

Protect the UK's dwindling hedgehog population before it's too late. - Final Signatures: 108,329

Now the hedgehog has been listed as vulnerable to extinction in the UK, we are calling on the Government to move hedgehogs to schedule 5 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 to allow them greater protection.

Debate: This petition was debated in Westminster Hall on 5th July 2021

The Government responsed to this petition on 19th October 2020 (View Full Response)
There are currently no plans to give hedgehogs further legal protection. An evidence-based review of Schedule 5 of the Act is in progress and we will consider any recommendations arising from this.

Found: Protect the UK's dwindling hedgehog population before it's too late.