Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 2087
Horses: Smuggling
Tabled: 29 July 2024
Answered: 2 September 2024
Question
Sarah Champion
Labour — Rotherham
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) horses and (b) ponies smuggled from the United Kingdom in each of last five years.
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerThe Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) defines a smuggled animal as one that is illegally exported. This means the animal is one that is not travelling on appropriate paperwork, has not been declared and/or is concealed. By its very nature, robust data...
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