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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 52955, tabled on 15 November 2016

Question

Mr Mark Williams
Liberal Democrat
Ceredigion
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many prosecutions there have been for breaches of the animal welfare regulations governing live animal exports in each of the last three years.

Answer

George Eustice
Conservative
Camborne and Redruth
Commons

Answered on

18 November 2016

Information is available on the number of convictions rather than on the number of prosecutions. In the last three years there have been the following number of convictions for breaches of the regulations protecting animal welfare during transport in England and Wales. Separate figures are not kept for convictions relating to live animal exports.

2015 - 8

2014 - 15

2013 – 14

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