Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been prosecuted for ivory smuggling in each of the last five years; and how many of those prosecutions have resulted in (a) convictions, (b) custodial sentences, and (c) non-custodial sentences.
It is not possible to identify prosecutions and outcomes for the specific offence of ivory smuggling. This information under the Ivory Act 2018 legislation is not centrally held in the Court Proceedings Database by the MoJ.