United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 66237
Animal Welfare: Prosecutions
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9 July 2025
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17 July 2025 · Answer
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of legislation for (a) deterring and (b) prosecuting people who attack (i) wildlife and (ii) livestock with catapults; an
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9 July 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of legislation for (a) deterring and (b) prosecuting people who attack (i) wildlife and (ii) livestock with catapults; an
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17 July 2025
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The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 protects all wild birds and some wild animals in England and Wales. While it does not specifically include catapults in the list of weapons that must not be used to kill wildlife, it is still illegal to deliberately a...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-07-09/66237
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1821192
- uk · wq-1821192 · source updated 17 July 2025