| Heading: |
Animal Welfare: Crime |
| Question ID: |
1788038 |
| UIN: |
40882 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5288 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Dr Al Pinkerton
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Dr Al Pinkerton
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help reduce animal (a) theft and (b) cruelty in Surrey Heath constituency. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-31 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4382 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Daniel Zeichner
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| Answering Member handle: |
danielzeichner
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@danielzeichner
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| Answer text: |
The Pet Abduction Act makes pet abduction a criminal offence. In England, the maximum term of imprisonment in the Pet Abduction Act is five years and/or an unlimited fine. Causing unnecessary suffering to an animal is an offence under Section 4 of the Ani... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |