HC Deb 16 October 2001 vol 372 cc1219-20W
Mr. Sayeed

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many applications for animal movement licences are outstanding. [7775]

Mr. Morley

Local authorities are responsible for issuing animal movement licences. But we understand that the backlog of outstanding applications varies between 0 and five days' workload, with the average being one day.