FOI request (FOIR-136824938)

Selling animals as pets

Requested Mon 12 August 2019
Responded Wed 21 August 2019

I request information regarding licenses in force for operators to sell animals as pets, under:

a. The Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018, or;

b. The Pet Animals Act 1951.

Please provide me with the following data:

1. The number of licenses in force for operators engaged in selling animals as pets on 1st October 2018.

2. The number of licenses in force for operators engaged in selling animals as pets on 1st April 2019.

3. The number of licenses granted for operators engaged in selling animals as pets during the period 1st October 2018 to 1st April 2019.

4. The number of licenses renewed for operators engaged in selling animals as pets during the period 1st October 2018 to 1st April 2019.

Please also provide me with copies of every license currently in force for operators engaged in selling animals as pets, including the general and specific conditions.

Response

Q1 - 4

Q2 - 4

Q3 - 0

Q4 - 4

Attached are the full conditions in Schedule 2 to the Act, we apply them to all licences and in these cases all received 5 stars, which means they achieved the Higher standards.

Please see attached information requested.

Attachments

• FOIR-136824938_FOIR-136824938_1-FOI136824938_(1)_-Selling_animals_as_pets_-_version_1.2.pdf
• FOIR-136824938_FOIR-136824938_2-FOI136824938_(2)_Redacted.pdf