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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications his Department has received for certificates of exemption to keep an XL Bully dog in (a) Solihull constituency and (b) England.

Since opening the scheme to apply for a certificate of exemption to keep an XL Bully Dog in November 2023, Defra has received 21277 applications from dog owners in England and Wales as of the 8th January 2024. These applications are still being processed and may include duplicates, errors or ineligible applications. Defra does not collate this data by constituency. Therefore, we are unable to provide the number of applications received from Solihull.