Decision details

(i)              That the draft Animal Welfare Charter, be received and the comments from the Health Wellbeing and Environment Scrutiny Committee, be noted.

(ii)             That the draft Animal Welfare Charter be forwarded to Full Council, for approval and adoption, subject to any proposed further amendments.

(iii)           That officers be authorised to canvas other local authorities to establish the appetite for collectively writing to the UK Government urging a ban on the giving of live animals as prizes on public and private land.