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Cats: Import Controls

Commons · Question 30085 · Tabled 10 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 17 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Andrew Rosindell

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ban the importation of deliberately mutilated cats.

Answer

Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 17 Feb 2025

The Government recently announced its support for the Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill, a Private Members’ Bill sponsored by the hon. Member for Winchester. The Bill will give the Government powers to prevent the supply of low-welfar...