Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 43549

Animals: Exports

Tabled: 2 April 2025
Answered: 11 April 2025
Named Day

Question

Dave Doogan

Scottish National PartyAngus and Perthshire Glens

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure enforcement of the ban on live (a) horse and (b) other animal exports for slaughter.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
The Government recognises the importance of the equine sector to the UK economy and of improving equine identification. We have no current plans to implement mandatory digital identification, but we remain in close touch with the industry. Exporting lives...

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