Dog Breeding Legislation

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 2:12 pm on 17 July 2019.

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Photo of Nick Ramsay Nick Ramsay Conservative 2:12, 17 July 2019

You've pretty much answered my question then, if you're going to be making a—. Well, it doesn't give you much time, actually, to make a statement, does it? In 2015, the Assembly, obviously, passed the regulations on dog breeding, and there were similar measures in England. And as you said, there’s been a fair amount of work done in this area. I was contacted by a constituent recently who was concerned about the robustness of some of the measures in place, and said that there was still some activity that we wanted to outlaw, in terms of puppy breeding, that was ongoing. So, my constituent asked me if there was going to be a review in the pipeline. You're obviously going to give a statement on this, so perhaps you could update the Assembly as soon as possible on when that review will happen and the scope of it, so that we can deal with all these issues.