| Heading: |
Cats: Animal Breeding |
| Question ID: |
1794352 |
| UIN: |
45837 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-17 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4716 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Ruth Jones
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| Asking Member handle: |
RuthJonesLabour
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@RuthJonesLabour
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislation to ban deliberate breeding of domestic cats with any non-domestic felid species. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-25 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
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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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The Government welcomes the Animal Welfare Committee’s Opinion on the welfare implications of current and emergent feline breeding practices. We are carefully considering the Committee’s recommendations. |
| Original answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |