Written question asked by Mark Williams (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 15 November 2016, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 18 November 2016 (named day). It was answered by George Eustice (Conservative) on Friday, 18 November 2016 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Livestock: Exports
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many prosecutions there have been for breaches of the animal welfare regulations governing live animal exports in each of the last three years.
- Answer
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Information is available on the number of convictions rather than on the number of prosecutions. In the last three years there have been the following number of convictions for breaches of the regulations protecting animal welfare during transport in England and Wales. Separate figures are not kept for convictions relating to live animal exports.
2015 - 8
2014 - 15
2013 – 14
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- 52955
- Session
- 2016-17
- Transferred
- Yes
- Subjects
- Animal welfare Exports Prosecutions Livestock Regulation
- Contains statistics
- Yes
- Link
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- 2016-11-18 12:29:38 +0000
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