A Bill to provide that, before making any order to designate a type of dog for the purposes of section 1 or 2 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, the Secretary of State must carry out a public consultation and publish a comparative review of data showing the incidences of fatalities resulting from bites of dogs of that type in the last three years.
House of Commons
Sir Christopher ChopeConservative
17 March 2026
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This Bill would require the Secretary of State to hold a public consultation and publish a data review before designating any dog type under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. In practice, that means the government must consider public input and compare three years of fatal-bite data for the dog type before adding it to the Act’s designations.
The Bill is currently at the 2nd Reading stage in the House of Commons (as of 17 April 2026). It has not yet progressed to Committee or to the Lords.
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The next stage for this Bill, Second reading, is scheduled to take place on Friday 17 April 2026, although the House of Commons is not expected to be sitting on that date.
This is a Private Members' Bill and was presented to Parliament on Monday 21 October 2024.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
