This consultation ended 1 March 2024.
Summary of outcome
The summary of responses is now available.
Original consultation
We want your views on proposals to license animal welfare establishments, activities and exhibits.
Consultation description
This is the first phase of developing a national model for regulating animal welfare. The licensing scheme would cover currently unlicensed or minimally regulated animal-related activities. These fall in to the following 4 categories:
- animal establishments
- animal activities
- animal exhibits
- greyhounds
Consultation documents
Consultation document , file type: PDF, file size: 382 KB
Summary of responses , file type: PDF, file size: 662 KB
Additional information
We received over 1,100 responses to this consultation and we are grateful to all those who submitted views, information, and evidence. We are now analysing feedback. Responses received were largely unique, standalone submissions containing much detail. As such, we need more than 12 weeks to evaluate the evidence and properly consider responses so that we get this right. We aim to publish a summary of responses later this year.