Cats

(asked on 12th March 2015) - View Source

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.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 17th March 2015

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

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