Horses: Imports
(asked on 3rd July 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many horses were recorded entering the UK via (a) Dover and (b) other ports in each year from 2016 to 2023.
Port | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
Birkenhead | 6 | 0 | 0 |
Cairnryan | 45 | 10 | 3 |
Dover | 6672 | 8465 | 3497 |
Fishguard | 100 | 243 | 100 |
Folkestone | 743 | 1550 | 644 |
Harwich | 488 | 601 | 341 |
Holyhead | 7993 | 9485 | 4742 |
Hull | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Immingham | 13 | 3 | 12 |
Killingholme | 101 | 112 | 41 |
Liverpool | 0 | 9 | 2 |
Newcastle | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Newhaven | 3 | 37 | 3 |
Pembroke | 597 | 952 | 411 |
Portsmouth | 673 | 1197 | 464 |
Other | 1058 | 939 | 215 |
Total | 18,492 | 23,607 | 10,475 |
The data provided is in respect of GB imports only.
We do not hold data on the port of entry into GB prior to 1 January 2021 as this information is not available on TRACES NT System.