Written questions

Pets: Tagging

Commons · Question 45500 · Tabled 17 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 29 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Andrew Rosindell

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will (a) provide local authorities with sufficient resources and (b) create a legal duty for local authorities to enforce requirements for all cats and dogs to be mic

Answer

Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 29 Apr 2025

Under the Microchipping of Cats and Dogs (England) Regulations 2023, both cats and dogs are required to be microchipped. There are no current plans to publish best practice guidance on enforcing the requirement for all cats and dogs to be microchipped and...