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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many partridge (a) eggs for hatching and (b) live birds were imported into England from each (a) EU country and (b) third country in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many partridge (a) eggs for hatching and (b) live birds were imported into England from each (a) EU country and (b) third country in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
The number of pheasant hatching eggs and live birds imported into England from the EU between 1 May 2018 and 30 April 2019 was:
Species | Commodity | Country Of Origin | Total |
Partridge | Live Birds | France | 1,722,269 |
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| Spain | 465,168 |
Partridge Total | 2,187,437 | ||
Pheasant | Hatching Eggs | France | 17,627,250 |
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| Poland | 1,241,460 |
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| Portugal | 142,630 |
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| Spain | 767,260 |
| Live Birds | Belgium | 12,000 |
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| France | 5,382,706 |
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| Ireland | 1,000 |
Pheasant Total | 25,174,306 | ||
The number of pheasant hatching eggs and live birds imported into the UK from third countries between 1 May 2018 and 30 April 2019 was:
Hatching eggs – 54,600
Live birds – 5,250
All imports were from the USA.
There are no recorded figures for partridge hatching eggs imported from the EU. In addition, there were no imports of partridge live birds or hatching eggs from third countries.
The Animal and Plant Health Agency is not able to determine how many of the above imports from third countries were imported into England.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department has allocated to grey partridge recovery projects.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department has allocated to grey partridge recovery projects.
The funding of agri-environment schemes is the principal means of improving habitat provision for farmland birds such as the grey partridge. Examples of measures funded to benefit the grey partridge include the provision of over-wintered stubble and wild bird seed mixtures to provide seed in the winter, reduced input arable margins, such as conservation headlands, to provide food in spring and summer and sympathetic management of hedgerows to provide enhanced nesting opportunities.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) pheasants and (b) partridges were kept in raised laying cages for the breeding of game birds for sporting purposes in England and Wales in each of the last 5 years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) pheasants and (b) partridges were kept in raised laying cages for the breeding of game birds for sporting purposes in England and Wales in each of the last 5 years.
The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) does not hold information on pheasants and partridges kept in raised laying cages for the breeding of game birds for sporting purposes in England and Wales. APHA does not hold this information for Bettws Hall Game Farm.
APHA does not maintain year on year statistics for game farms. APHA only takes a register of the number of birds usually kept on a holding, which is supplied at the time of registration by the owner/keeper of the birds.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of (i) pheasants and (ii) partridges kept in raised laying cages by the Bettws Hall Game Farm for the breeding of game birds for sporting purposes in each of the...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of (i) pheasants and (ii) partridges kept in raised laying cages by the Bettws Hall Game Farm for the breeding of game birds for sporting purposes in each of the...
The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) does not hold information on pheasants and partridges kept in raised laying cages for the breeding of game birds for sporting purposes in England and Wales. APHA does not hold this information for Bettws Hall Game Farm.
APHA does not maintain year on year statistics for game farms. APHA only takes a register of the number of birds usually kept on a holding, which is supplied at the time of registration by the owner/keeper of the birds.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ban purpose-bred pheasants and partridges for the shooting industry.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ban purpose-bred pheasants and partridges for the shooting industry.
The government has no plans to ban the breeding of pheasants and partridges for the shooting industry.