Policy paper

Animal health and welfare: provisional common framework

How the UK government and devolved governments propose to work together in animal health and welfare policy areas.

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

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Animal health and welfare provisional common framework

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This command paper sets out how the UK government and devolved governments propose to work together in key areas of animal health and welfare law and policy.

The provisional common framework has received ministerial approval from all 4 governments. It was laid in the UK Parliament to enable parliamentary scrutiny to begin.

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Published 3 February 2022

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