Related documents
The following documents are relevant to the Act and can be read at the stated locations:
The draft Terms of Reference for the Animal Sentience Committee:
https://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2022-0007/Animal_Sentience_Committee_Draft_Terms_of_Reference.pdf
Review of the evidence for sentience in decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs:
http://sciencesearch.defra.gov.uk/Document.aspx?Document=15299_SentienceinCephalopodMolluscsandDecapodCrustaceans_FinalReport_November2021.pdf
The Animal Welfare (Sentencing and Recognition of Sentience) Draft Bill laid before Parliament by the previous Government in December 2017:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/666576/draft-animal-welfare-bill-171212.pdf
The EFRA Select Committee’s pre-legislative scrutiny report on that draft bill:
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmenvfru/709/709.pdf
The previous Government’s response to the Select Committee’s report:
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmenvfru/984/984.pdf