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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many prosecutions there have been under the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966 of non-veterinary surgeons who have performed canine artificial insemination in the last five years.

Defra has made no prosecutions under the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966 of non-veterinary surgeons who have performed canine artificial insemination in the last five years. Defra does not have data for such prosecutions made by other organisations.