Jim Shannon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-02-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information her Department holds on the number of dogs put down because they could not be rehomed in each of the last five years.

George Eustice

Statistics of dogs put down because they could not be re-homed are not held by central Government. However, Dogs Trust carry out an annual survey of local authorities. The attached table is taken from information from the last five Dogs Trust surveys.

Apr 2014 – Mar 2015 – 5,142

Apr 2013 – Mar 2014 – 7,058

Apr 2012 – Mar 2013 – 7,319

Apr 2011 – Mar 2012 – 8,903

Apr 2010 – Mar 2011 – 7,121