Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 15079

Horses

Tabled: 19 November 2024

Answered: 2 December 2024

Question

Mr Lee Dillon

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of designating thoroughbred horses as high health animals.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner

On 25 November 2024 we announced that physical checks at Border Control Posts for live animals imported from the European Union, including horses and other equines, and goods and live animals arriving at west coast ports from Ireland, will not begin in 20...

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