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 4 September 2026 to Question 22739 on Animal Rescue Centres: Licensing, when she expects to launch the consultation on licensing domestic rescue and rehoming organisations; and whether she expects the consultation to commence before the end of 2026.

This Government committed in the Animal Welfare Strategy to consult on licensing domestic rescue and rehoming organisations and we expect to do this in 2027.