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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2018 to Question 123804 on Hunting Act 2004, whether officials within his Department have been instructed to draft legislative proposals in respect of the Hunting Act 2004 in the last 24 months.

Departmental officials have not been instructed to draft any legislative proposals or changes to the Hunting Act 2004 in the last 24 months.