Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 13603

Animals: Imports

Tabled: 11 November 2024
Answered: 2 December 2024
Named Day

Question

Samantha Niblett

LabourSouth Derbyshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that animals are declared correctly as rescued at UK borders; and how many animals have been (a) accepted and (b) rejected at the border in the last fiv

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Where the purpose of the movement of an animal is relating to the sale or any other form of transfer of ownership of the animal, including rescue animals, the commercial importation rules should be used. Animals which are imported under the incorrect regi...

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