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Offensive Weapons: Bexleyheath and Crayford |
| Question ID: |
1812287 |
| UIN: |
59668 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-12 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5184 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Daniel Francis
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danfrancis02
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@danfrancis02
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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 help tackle the use of catapults to maim (a) animals and (b) wildlife in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-19 |
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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: |
The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 protects all wild birds and some wild animals in England and Wales. While the Act does not specifically include catapults in the list of weapons that a person must not use to kill wildlife, it is still illegal under t... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |