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This consultation ended 1 March 2024.

Consultation period:
8 December 2023 to 1 March 2024
Last updated:

Reviewing responses

The responses to this consultation are currently being reviewed. Details of the outcome will be published here in due course.

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

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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.