Animal Welfare: Sentencing
(asked on 23rd October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will introduce legislation to increase the maximum sentence for animal cruelty offences to five years imprisonment.
This question was answered on 2nd November 2017
On 30 September the Secretary of State announced that the Government would increase the maximum penalty for animal cruelty offences from six months’ imprisonment to five years’ imprisonment. As this announcement made clear, draft legislation will be published for consultation around the turn of the year