Cats and Dogs: Electronic Training Aids

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered am ar 17 Mai 2024.

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Photo of Gill Furniss Gill Furniss Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is for bringing forward legislative proposals to ban the use of electronic shock collars on (a) cats and (b) dogs.

Photo of Mark Spencer Mark Spencer The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The Government remains committed to banning electronic training collars controlled by hand-held devices that administer electric shocks to cats or dogs.

We will pursue new regulations to deliver this commitment on a revised timeline. Parliamentary business will be announced in the usual way.

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