Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate her Department has made of the number of cats that have been brought into the UK illegally in the last three years.
The number of cats identified as being non-compliant with either the pet travel scheme (Regulation 576/2013) or the commercial trade and import regime (Balai Directive 92/65) and subsequently licensed into quarantine in Great Britain is provided below:
Year | Number of cats quarantined |
2012 | 101 |
2013 | 83 |
2014 | 99 |