Correspondence Jun. 21 2022
Committee: Petitions CommitteeFound: Letter to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs relating to breed
Asked by: Rupa Huq (Labour - Ealing Central and Acton)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of conducting a review of (a) Breed-Specific Legislation and (b) the Dangerous Dogs Act by the end of 2022.
Answered by Victoria Prentis - Attorney General
The primary purpose of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 is public protection. The Government must balance the views of those who want to repeal or amend the breed specific legislation relating to the Pit Bull terrier, Dogo Argentino, Fila Brasileiro and the Japanese Tosa with that responsibility.
The Government considers that a lifting of the restrictions on these types of dogs would more likely result in an increase in dog attacks, rather than contributing to any reduction in such incidents. This position is supported by the police.
In December 2021, Defra published research in collaboration with Middlesex University investigating measures to reduce dog attacks and promote responsible dog ownership across all breeds of dog.
Defra have subsequently set up a Responsible Dog Ownership project in collaboration with the police, local authority representatives and animal welfare stakeholders to consider the recommendations set out in the Middlesex University Report in detail and provide advice to the Government as to how these could be taken forward.
We expect the work of the work of the Responsible Dog Ownership project to be concluded in early 2023, at which point the Government will consider the advice.
Mentions:
1: Christina Rees (IND - Neath) The Government should therefore immediately repeal breed specific legislation.”Four breeds are banned - Speech Link
2: None breed-specific legislation. - Speech Link
3: Christina Rees (IND - Neath) breed-specific legislation. - Speech Link
4: Christina Rees (IND - Neath) breed-specific legislation. - Speech Link
5: Christina Rees (IND - Neath) breed-specific legislation. - Speech Link
6: Wayne David (LAB - Caerphilly) breed-specific legislation. - Speech Link
7: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) breed-specific legislation. - Speech Link
8: Justin Madders (LAB - Ellesmere Port and Neston) breed-specific legislation. - Speech Link
9: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) breed-specific legislation. - Speech Link
10: Christina Rees (IND - Neath) breed-specific legislation. - Speech Link
11: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus) breed-specific legislation. - Speech Link
12: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) We are not willing to repeal the breed-specific provisions contained in the Dangerous Dogs Act without - Speech Link
Found: The Bill will repeal the need for consent and risk assessment for q ualifying PBOs and replace
Mentions:
1: Lord Lansley (CON - Life peer) will be to repeal that when the time comes. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Noakes (CON - Life peer) will be improved by adding a lot of extra things to it.My favourite kind of Bills are the ones which repeal - Speech Link
3: Lord Best (CB - Life peer) non-profit registered providers of housing—housing associations, in common parlance—also covers the new breed - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) We all know how stretched local government is, so I have a specific question for the Minister. - Speech Link
Found: The Bill will repeal the need for consent and risk assessment for q ualifying PBOs and replace
Mentions:
1: John Whittingdale (CON - Maldon) we might try to correct that during its passage.I look forward to the inclusion in the Bill of the repeal - Speech Link
2: Sharon Hodgson (LAB - Washington and Sunderland West) the need for new high-level alternative provision, but I implore them to expand their priorities to specific - Speech Link
3: Luke Evans (CON - Bosworth) We have had £19.9 million for Twycross zoo to create a conservation and education centre to breed the - Speech Link
4: Helen Hayes (LAB - Dulwich and West Norwood) Such legislation is long overdue. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) If I may, I will not comment on that specific example that has been given. - Speech Link
2: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) particularly around action on supply chains, but any modern slavery Bill worthy of the name should repeal - Speech Link
3: Mark Hendrick (LAB - Preston) In September 2020, the Government were prepared to break international law in“a very specific and limited - Speech Link
4: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) double the figure five years ago.Under the Conservatives, our prisons have become colleges of crime that breed - Speech Link
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