Horses: Smuggling
Commons · Question 46720 · Tabled 22 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 6 May 2025
Question
Asked by Jim Shannon
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 2 September 2024 to Question 2087 on Horse: Smuggling, what estimate his Department has made of the number of horses smuggled from the United Kingdom at (a) D
Answer
Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 6 May 2025
APHA defines a smuggled animal as one that is illegally exported: it is one that is not travelling on appropriate paperwork, has not been declared and/or is concealed. This means that robust data on the numbers of horses and ponies illegally smuggled out ...