Horses: Smuggling
Commons · Question 2087 · Tabled 29 Jul 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 2 Sep 2024
Question
Asked by Sarah Champion
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
Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 2 Sep 2024
The 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...