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Response to the Animal Sentience Committee鈥檚 report on whether the government has all due regard to the welfare of animals as sentient beings in relation to animal welfare legislation surveillance and enforcement.
Presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 3 of the Animal Welfare鈥�
Seeking views on proposed changes to how you鈥檙e allowed to catch (lift and carry) laying hens and meat chickens when loading and unloading for transport.
Defra's approach to the wild release and management of beavers in England.
This policy paper sets out Defra鈥檚 approach to the wild release and鈥�
Response to the Animal Sentience Committee鈥檚 report on if the Online Safety Act takes into consideration animal welfare.
We are seeking your views on changes to the microchipping regulations. We want to make it easier to reunite lost or stolen cats and dog and improve breeder traceability.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Seeking views on the proposed licensing scheme for private primate keepers in England and the draft standards for care and management of primates.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Seeking views on the government鈥檚 proposals to introduce penalty notices for animal health and welfare offences in England.
We are seeking your views about improving England鈥檚 equine identification and traceability system.
Seeking evidence on the impacts of potential animal welfare labelling.
How the UK government and devolved governments propose to work together in animal health and welfare policy areas.
Creating a modernised and responsive scientific basis for regulating veterinary medicines.
We are seeking your views on our proposed changes to the rules around the movement of pets into Great Britain.
Seeking views on ending live animal exports for slaughter and fattening, starting in or transported through England or Wales, and on further improvements to animal welfare in transport.
Seeking views on our proposals to ban the keeping of primates as pets and how this ban might be enforced.
Our Action Plan for Animal Welfare sets out government鈥檚 plans, aims and ambitions across animal welfare.
The contingency plan provides an overview of the response to an outbreak of exotic notifiable disease at the UK level.
Review and evidence analysis of the Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (England) Regulations 2015.
Seeking views on our draft Animal Welfare (Sentencing and Recognition of Sentience) Bill.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
Seeking evidence on improving animal welfare in transport, particularly on controlling live animal exports for slaughter, after the UK leaves the EU.
Sets out the detail of laws the government plans to make, introducing new penalties for animal cruelty, and covering other animal welfare issues.
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