Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to Nature Watch's report entitled Canine Fertility Clinics in the UK, published in October 2022, whether her Department plans to respond to that report on the adequacy of the regulation of canine fertility clinics.

Defra has received Naturewatch’s report and officials will meet with representatives from the organisation in the new year.