Furs: Sales

(asked on 29th November 2023) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions his Department has had with the British Fur Trade Association on the proposals on fur sales in UK in his Department's Action Plan for Animal Welfare, published on 12 May 2021.


Answered by
Mark Spencer Portrait
Mark Spencer
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 7th December 2023

We are continuing to build our evidence base on the fur sector, which will be used to inform any future action on the fur trade.  We have run the Call for Evidence on the fur market in Great Britain and continue to directly engage with stakeholders including the British Fur Trade Association.

We have also commissioned a report from our expert Animal Welfare Committee into the issue of what constitutes responsible sourcing in the fur industry. This report will help inform our next steps, and the Animal Welfare Committee will be in contact with the British Fur Trade Association as part of taking this forward.

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