"uri","answering body","answer > is ministerial correction","answer > date of answer","answer > answer text","answer > answering member constituency","answer > answering member printed","answer > question first answered","answer > uri","answer > answering member > label","answering dept id","answering dept short name","answering dept sort name","date","hansard heading","house id","legislature > pref label","question text","registered interest","tabling member > label","tabling member constituency","tabling member printed","uin" "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1088801","Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs","false","2019-03-22","

The Government is committed to the highest standards of animal welfare, and we have announced that we will increase the maximum custodial penalty for animal cruelty from six months to five years to allow the courts to impose appropriate penalties in extreme cases, whatever the motivation for the offence.

","Macclesfield","David Rutley","2019-03-22T10:15:11.033Z","http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1088801/answer","Biography information for David Rutley","13","Environment, Food and Rural Affairs","Environment, Food and Rural Affairs","2019-03-14","Animal Welfare: Sentencing","1","House of Commons","To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a maximum five-year sentence for animal cruelty as a deterrent to animal cruelty offenders who use such acts of cruelty to manipulate human victims.","false","Biography information for David T C Davies","Monmouth","David T. C. Davies","232542"