Wildlife: Crime

(asked on 30th November 2017) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if the Government will publish annual reports on recorded wildlife crimes and related court proceedings and penalties.


Answered by
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Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 6th December 2017

The Office for National Statistics publishes police-recorded crime statistics, including statistics on wildlife crimes.

The Ministry of Justice publishes annual criminal justice statistics as part of Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly, which includes information on those proceeded against, found guilty and sentenced for criminal offences in England and Wales. The offence group classifications provides a list of offences separately broken down, which would include some separately identifiable wildlife crime groups.

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