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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications were received from travelling circuses to use wild animals in (a) 2018 and (b) 2019; and (i) how many animals and (ii) of which species were listed in each application.

(a) In 2018 there were two separate applications.

The first license application was for a total of five animals and included the following stocklist:

• One zebra (equus burchelli chapmani)

• Two camels (camelus bactrianus)

• Two reindeer (rangifer tarandus)

The second license application was for a total of fourteen animals and included the following stocklist:

• One camel (camelus bactrianus)

• Four reindeer (rangifer tarandus)

• One fox (vulpes vulpes)

• Three raccoons (procyon lotor)

• Three zebras (equus burchelli chapmani)

• One zebu (bos indicus)

• One blue and gold macaw (ara ararauna)

(b) In 2019 there has been one application to date.

This license application was for five animals and included the following stock list:

• One zebra (equus burchelli chapmani)

• Two camels (camelus bactrianus)

• Two reindeer (rangifer tarandus)