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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government plans to take to maintain its recognition of status of the sentience of non-domestic animals after the UK has left the EU.

The Secretary of State set out the Government’s position in a Written Ministerial Statement on 23 November:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2017-11-23/HCWS267/