PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Dangerous Dogs (24 January 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications his Department has received for certificates of exemption to keep an American Bully XL type dog in (a) Canterbury constituency and (b) England.

Asked by:
Rosie Duffield (Independent)

Defra received over 61,000 applications for Certificates of Exemption ahead of the deadline from dog owners in England and Wales. These applications are still being processed and may include duplicates, errors or ineligible applications. Defra does not collate this data by constituency.

Answered by:
Sir Mark Spencer (Conservative)
14 February 2024