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Hares: Animal Welfare |
| Question ID: |
1809053 |
| UIN: |
HL8061 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-03 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4551 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Redfern
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Baroness Redfern
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what measures they are considering to protect hares and their young during the breeding season; and what assessment they have made of the introduction of a close season for the killing of hares. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-12 |
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false |
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false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4395 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Hayman of Ullock
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| Answering Member handle: |
suehayman1
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@suehayman1
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| Answer text: |
Defra Ministers support the ambition to introduce a close season for hares in England. The hare is a much-loved species, and we fail to give it the protection we should. England and Wales stand out as being among the few European countries not to have a c... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |