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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 51396, tabled on 1 November 2016

Question

Mr Mark Williams
Liberal Democrat
Ceredigion
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many vehicles the Animal and Plant Agency has inspected (a) during the loading of live animals and (b) at ports from which live animals have been exported in each of the last three years.

Answer

George Eustice
Conservative
Camborne and Redruth
Commons

Answered on

4 November 2016

Number of vehicles the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) has inspected:

(a) during the loading of live animals:

  • 99 during 2014

  • 66 during 2015

  • 127 during 2016

(b) at ports from which live animals have been exported:

  • 96 during 2014
  • 121 during 2015
  • 72 during 2016

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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