A question on #Horses #Smuggling tabled by Jim Shannon on 22-04-2025 has been answered by Daniel Zeichner.

Heading: Horses: Smuggling
Question ID: 1795453
UIN: 46720
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-04-22
Asking Member ID: 4131
Asking Member display name: Jim Shannon
Asking Member handle: jimshannonmp
Asking Member Twitter reference: @jimshannonmp
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 2 September 2024 to Question 2087 on Horse: Smuggling, what estimate his Department has made of the number of horses smuggled from the United Kingdom at (a) D
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Date answered: 2025-05-06
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Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 4382
Answering Member display name: Daniel Zeichner
Answering Member handle: danielzeichner
Answering Member Twitter reference: @danielzeichner
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Answer text: APHA defines a smuggled animal as one that is illegally exported: it is one that is not travelling on appropriate paperwork, has not been declared and/or is concealed. This means that robust data on the numbers of horses and ponies illegally smuggled out ...
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Answering body ID: 13
Answering body name: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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