| Heading: |
Hares: Animal Welfare |
| Question ID: |
1788968 |
| UIN: |
41590 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-26 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5035 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Will Stone
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Will Stone
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to protect brown hares in England and Wales from being shot for sport during their breeding season. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-01 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1579 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Mary Creagh
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| Answering Member handle: |
marycreagh_
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@marycreagh_
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| Answer text: |
This is a devolved matter, and the information provided therefore relates to England only, with the potential for relevant policy to extend and apply to Wales. While the Government has no immediate plan to introduce a close season for hares in England, th... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |