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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a ban on the sale of electric shock collars.

In our consultation on a proposal to ban the use of electronic collars we have proposed to make it an offence to use an e-collar, or even to put one on a cat or dog, or be in charge of a cat or dog that is wearing one. We also want to hear views about what these proposals will mean for the sale of e-collars and whether any further restrictions will be required beyond what the government is proposing in order to deliver our objective to end their use.