Animal Welfare: Circuses
(asked on 15th July 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on how many occasions in each of the last five years there were cases of animals in travelling circuses not being licensed under the Welfare of Wild Animals in Travelling Circuses (England) Regulations 2012; and what animals were involved in each such case.
This question was answered on 22nd July 2015
Since January 2013, when the Welfare of Wild Animals in Travelling Circuses (England) Regulations 2012 came into force, there have been no cases of wild animals being used in a travelling circus without the licence required by the Regulations.