Asked by: Anne Main (Conservative - St Albans)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2017 to Question 64007, whether his Department is able to identify domestic cat and dog fur from non-domestic cat and dog fur that enters or is sold in the UK; and whether he plans to introduce regulatory proposals to include non-domestic cat and dog fur currently not covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 1523/2007 after the UK leaves the EU.
Answered by Mark Garnier - Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Work and Pensions)
I refer the hon Member for St Albans to the answer given by my Rt. Hon Friend the Minister of State for International Trade (Greg Hands) on 27 February 2017, UIN: 64023. Answer included below:
The import, export and placing on the market of cat and dog fur, and products made from such fur is prohibited under EU legislation (Council Regulation (EC) No 1523/2007). As part of our exit from the EU and through the Great Repeal Bill, these controls will be carried over into UK law.
Border Force will act to enforce the legislation if illegal cat and dog fur products are detected during the course of carrying out other customs import and export checks, or following receipt of specific intelligence. In these cases, samples are taken and forensically examined. Consignments are seized where they are confirmed to contain cat or dog fur.
Asked by: Anne Main (Conservative - St Albans)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of regulations to prevent dog and cat fur from entering the UK.
Answered by Greg Hands
The import, export and placing on the market of cat and dog fur, and products made from such fur is prohibited under EU legislation (Council Regulation (EC) No 1523/2007). As part of our exit from the EU and through the Great Repeal Bill, these controls will be carried over into UK law.
Border Force will act to enforce the legislation if illegal cat and dog fur products are detected during the course of carrying out other customs import and export checks, or following receipt of specific intelligence. In these cases, samples are taken and forensically examined. Consignments are seized where they are confirmed to contain cat or dog fur.
Asked by: Anne Main (Conservative - St Albans)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate he has made of the volume of goods imported from Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories to the UK in the last 12 months.
Answered by Mark Garnier - Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Work and Pensions)
Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories report their trade through Israel. It is not possible to disaggregate imports from Israeli settlements from other Israeli imports.
HMRC figures show the UK imported 340,000 tonnes of goods from Israel in the 12 months ending September 2016. These goods were worth £1 billion.