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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make it her policy to collect information on whether animals imported from (a) inside and (b) outside the EU were bred in captivity or caught from the wild.

Under CITES, animal species which are imported into the UK from outside the EU must have an export certificate from the country of export stating whether that animal has been taken from the wild or is captive bred. Animals arriving from another EU Member State will only have such information if listed on Annex A (the highest level of protection) of Council Regulation 338/97 which implements CITES in the EU.