Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many pet passports have been issued in each of the last five years.

The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) issue blank pet passports to approved Official Veterinarian (OV) practices who then issue these for cats, dogs and ferrets to move under the Pet Travel Scheme. The below data is for numbers of blank pet passports issued to OV practices by APHA. We do not record the number of pet passports issued by OV practices to individual animals, however carriers do record the number of times pets travel.

In December 2014 new model pet passports were introduced as a result of a new EU Regulation covering pet movements. This will account for the increase in the number of pet passports issued to OV practices in 2015.