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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to incorporate animal sentience principles outlined in Article 13 of the Lisbon Treaty into UK law after the UK leaves the EU.

The Secretary of State set out the Government’s plans to recognise animal sentience in domestic law in a Written Ministerial Statement on 12 December:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2017-12-12/HCWS340/