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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people were (a) charged and (b) convicted of an offence under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 in each police force area, broken down by type of offences in 2016.

The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty of offences under the specific sections of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 for which data was reported, by police force area, in 2016, can be viewed in the attached table. Charging data is not held by the Ministry of Justice.