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Animal Welfare: Prosecutions

Commons · Question 43046 · Tabled 1 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 7 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Tessa Munt

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the number of private prosecution cases brought by the RSPCA under the Animal Welfare Act 2006.

Answer

Answered by Sarah Sackman, 7 Apr 2025

The Ministry of Justice does not collate or record detailed data on individual private prosecutions, although some prosecutors may publish their own data separately. Therefore, it is not possible to provide data on the number of prosecutions which have be...