Tackling irresponsible dog ownership – Defra consultation
A Defra consultation running from 23 April to 15 June 2012 seeking views on a proposed package of measures to tackle irresponsible dog ownership, including extending the criminal offence of allowing a dog to be dangerously out of control to private property and other breed-related controls.
Tackling irresponsible dog ownership - GOV.UK
Cookies on GOV.UK
We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies.
You can
change your cookie settings
at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies.
You can
change your cookie settings
at any time.
Accept additional cookies
Reject additional cookies
View cookies
Hide cookie message
Skip to main content
Consultation outcome
Tackling irresponsible dog ownership
From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published
23 April 2012
This was published under the
2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
This consultation has concluded
Read the full outcome
Summary of responses
PDF
,
243 KB
,
43 pages
This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.
Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email
defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk
. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.
Detail of outcome
Summary
Defra sought views on a proposed package of measures aimed at tackling irresponsible ownership of dogs.
This consultation ran from
23 April 2012
to
11:45pm on 15 June 2012
Consultation description
Defra sought views on a proposed package of measures aimed at tackling irresponsible ownership of dogs. The main proposals:
Extending the criminal offence of allowing a dog to be dangerously out of control to private property (where the dog has a right to be);
Compulsory microchipping of dogs;
Removing the need to seize and kennel all dogs where court proceeding are pending; and
Increase the fee for placing a dog on the Index of Exempted Dogs
The proposals, along with other work we are already carrying out, provide a mix of preventative, educational and punitive measures which are designed to tackle a variety of problems (e.g. allowing dogs to become dangerous, status dogs, allowing dogs to stray and general irresponsible ownership leading to poor welfare and anti-social behaviour).
Further information
Dangerous dogs
News release
Written Ministerial Statement
(PDF)
Documents
Consultation letter
PDF
,
92.3 KB
,
3 pages
This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.
Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email
defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk
. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.
Annex A – Consultation document
PDF
,
135 KB
,
19 pages
This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.
Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email
defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk
. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.
Annex B – Microchipping impact assessment
PDF
,
199 KB
,
31 pages
This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.
Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email
defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk
. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.
Annex C – Private property impact assessment
PDF
,
134 KB
,
11 pages
This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.
Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email
defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk
. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.
Annex D – Kennelling impact assessment
PDF
,
131 KB
,
12 pages
This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.
Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email
defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk
. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.
Annex E – Index fee impact assessment
PDF
,
110 KB
,
6 pages
This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.
Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email
defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk
. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.
Annex F – List of consultees
PDF
,
30.7 KB
,
4 pages
This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.
Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email
defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk
. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.
Share this page
The following links open in a new tab
Share on
(opens in new tab)
Share on
(opens in new tab)
Updates to this page
Published 23 April 2012
Sign up for emails or print this page
Print this page
Is this page useful?
Maybe
Yes
this page is useful
No
this page is not useful
Thank you for your feedback
Report a problem with this page
Help us improve GOV.UK
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today.
Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab
)
.
Cancel