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Written Question

Wildlife: Crime

Thursday 1st August 2024

Asked by: Dan Norris (Independent - North East Somerset and Hanham)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to make all wildlife crimes notifiable.

Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

This Government recognises the importance of tackling wildlife crime, which is why, along with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Home Office directly funds the National Wildlife Crime Unit to help tackle these crimes.

There are no plans currently to make all wildlife crimes notifiable. Any non-notifiable wildlife crime reported to police can be investigated as Chief Constables have operational independence to tackle the crimes that matter most to their communities.