HC Deb 15 February 1996 vol 271 cc675-6W
Mr. Tony Banks

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many deaths of animals and birds have occurred at the animal quarantine station at Heathrow airport for each year since 1989. [8777]

Mrs. Browning

[holding answer 19 January 1996]: The animal quarantine station at Heathrow airport—AQS—has informed me that the number of deaths of mammals and birds, including those dead on arrival, at the AQS is in the table.

Birds Mammals
1989 1,483 0
1990 906 5
1991 528 22
1992 723 43
1993 861 31
1994 286 5
1995 407 29