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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to extend the prohibition on fur imports to all species (a) farmed and (b) trapped commercially for fur after the UK leaves the EU.

The Government shares the British public’s high regard for animal welfare. The UK continues to support higher animal welfare standards worldwide as the best way of phasing out cruel and inhumane fur farming and trapping practices that are banned here.

When we leave the EU we will retain all current EU regulations banning imports of cat and dog fur and of seal products from commercial hunts, as well as controls on products from endangered species and from inhumane trapping. It will be open to governments in future, once the UK has left the EU, to consider whether they wish to go further than current EU arrangements.