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Dogs: Smuggling

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 16791, tabled on 28 November 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate he has made of the number of pregnant dogs illegally smuggled into the UK in the last three years.

Answered on

4 December 2024

By its very nature, robust data on the full extent of illegal pet smuggling is not readily available. Therefore, the number of pregnant dogs illegally smuggled into the UK is difficult to quantify accurately.