PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Animal Welfare (9 May 2019)
Question Asked
Asked by:
Grant Shapps (Conservative)
Answer
We will maintain and enhance our high animal welfare standards as we leave the EU.
We recently laid legislation to ban travelling circuses from using wild animals and to tackle puppy farming by ending third party sales. We have made CCTV mandatory in slaughterhouses and are introducing one of the world’s toughest bans on ivory sales to protect elephants from poaching. Each of these measures goes further than EU rules require.
Answered by:
David Rutley (Conservative)
14 May 2019
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