To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many pheasant (a) eggs for hatching, (b) chicks and (c) poults were imported into England from each EU country in the last year for which figures are available.
Answered on
26 January 2016
Information is available for live birds and hatching eggs. The number imported from each EU Member State in 2015 was as follows:
Partridge (Perdix\Alectoris) | Pheasant (Phasianus) | Mixed | ||||
EU Country | Number | EU Country | Number | EU Country | Number | |
Live Birds | France | 278,638 | France | 5,811,323 | France | 70,253 |
Belgium | 50,500 | |||||
Hatching Eggs | Germany | 320 | ||||
France | 9,423486 | |||||
Portugal | 24,120 | |||||
Denmark | 2,000 | |||||
Spain | 93,600 | |||||
Poland | 48,170 | |||||