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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the compatibility of the Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill with her Department’s international development strategy.

The Government has pledged to ban the imports of hunting trophies from thousands of species. We are committed to a ban on imports of hunting trophies that is among the strongest in the world and leads the way in protecting endangered animals. We are supporting the Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill, a Private Member’s Bill led by the hon. Member for Crawley, that will deliver this. This is consistent with our commitment to protect nature that we set out in the strategy for international development published in May 2022.