| Heading: |
Pets: Animal Housing |
| Question ID: |
1790827 |
| UIN: |
42880 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-31 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5035 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Will Stone
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Will Stone
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will introduce a mandatory regulated size requirement for gerbil and hamster cages. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-07 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4382 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Daniel Zeichner
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| Answering Member handle: |
danielzeichner
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@danielzeichner
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| Answer text: |
The Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018 (the LAIA Regulations) set strict animal welfare standards that commercial sellers of pets, such as gerbils and hamsters, must adhere to. The accompanying statutory ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |