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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...