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Zoos: Licensing

Commons · Question 58663 · Tabled 10 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 17 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Sarah Champion

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to improve the enforcement of zoo licensing.

Answer

Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 17 Jun 2025

The Government published new Standards of Modern Zoo Practice for Great Britain on 24 May 2025. The Standards will come into force from May 2027 and will replace the current 2012 Secretary of State’s Standards of Modern Zoo Practice. One of the objectives...