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<p>The Government will ensure that any necessary changes required to UK law are made
to ensure animal sentience is recognised after we leave the EU. In December 2017,
the Government published the Draft Animal Welfare (Sentencing and Recognition of Sentience)
Bill and ran a public consultation on the draft Bill. The House of Commons' Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Select Committee also undertook pre-legislative scrutiny
of the draft Bill and Defra responded to EFRA’s report in March 2018. In August 2018,
Defra published a summary of responses to the public consultation and since then Defra
has continued to engage closely with stakeholders to further refine the Government's
proposals on sentience.</p>
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