| Heading: |
Hunting: Prison Sentences |
| Question ID: |
1805045 |
| UIN: |
54143 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-21 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5343 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mr Joshua Reynolds
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| Asking Member handle: |
JoshReynoldsSL6
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@JoshReynoldsSL6
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has considered introducing custodial sentences for people found guilty of illegal hunting under the provisions of the Hunting Act 2004. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-12 |
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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: |
This Government was elected on a mandate to introduce the most ambitious plans in a generation to improve animal welfare and that is exactly what we will do. The Hunting Act 2004 makes it an offence to hunt a wild mammal with dogs, except where it is carr... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |