Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 2:49 pm on 13 October 2021.
Thank you. It is something I am currently considering as part of the animal welfare plan. So, I've asked officials—the chief veterinary officer and her officers—to look at a five-year animal welfare plan for Wales so that we can build on the progress that we've made on animal welfare, certainly over the past 16 or so years, and my plan is to introduce an animal welfare plan later this year that will look at what we should do for the next five years of this Government. This is certainly something I'm considering within that. I think there's a broad range of policies we need to bring forward, not just about dogs, but I think if we are going to maintain the momentum that we have, because I think we have very, very high animal welfare standards in Wales, we need to look at that momentum of reform, and the plan will absolutely do that.