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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 52956, 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 inspections Trading Standards has undertaken of animals during transit for slaughter abroad in each of the last three years.

Answer

George Eustice
Conservative
Camborne and Redruth
Commons

Answered on

18 November 2016

Defra does not hold data on local authority Trading Standards inspections of animals during transit for slaughter abroad. APHA carry out supervised loadings on export consignments of live animals for slaughter.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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