questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure the protection of assistance animals from abuse and neglect; and what additional steps he plans to take to improve safeguards for the
answerText: Causing unnecessary suffering to an animal, including assistance animals, is an offence under section 4 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006. The maximum sentence for this offence  is five years imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine. Those convicted of an offen...
heading: Assistance Animals: Animal Welfare