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Animal Products: Import Controls

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 912196, tabled on 25 July 2019

Question

Mrs Pauline Latham
Conservative
Mid Derbyshire
Commons

What steps he is taking to ban products of trophy hunting from being imported to the UK.

Answer

Dr Thérèse Coffey
Conservative
Suffolk Coastal
Commons

Answered on

25 July 2019

We must proceed on the basis of evidence. We will publish a Call for Evidence on the impact of international trade in hunting trophies between the UK and other countries, to understand whether further action is needed to address impacts on the species, and the profound ethical concerns involved.

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