Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered on 23 October 2023.
Lord Black of Brentwood
Conservative
To ask His Majesty's Government when they intend to introduce legislation to ban the use of electric shock collars on cats and dogs in England.
Lord Benyon
The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The Animal Welfare (Electronic Collars) (England) Regulations will make it an offence to attach an electronic shock collar to a cat or dog, or to be in possession of a remote-control device capable of activating such a collar when attached to a cat or dog. The regulations have been considered in this House and will be considered in the Other Place in due course. Parliamentary business will be announced in the usual way.
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