Pheasants: Imports

(asked on 26th October 2022) - 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 pheasant (a) eggs for hatching and (b) live birds were imported from each (i) EU country and (ii) third country in the last 12 months for which figures are available.


Answered by
Mark Spencer Portrait
Mark Spencer
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 31st October 2022

For imports of pheasant eggs for hatching and live pheasants from EU countries in the last 12 months, the information is in the tables below:

Country

Number of Consignments

Number of pheasant eggs for hatching

Denmark

1

22000

France

66

300366

Hungary

3

78840

Poland

7

113000

Spain

9

193280

Grand Total

86

707486

Country

Number of Consignments

Number of live pheasants

France

9

165100

Hungary

2

7500

Poland

3

10400

Republic of Ireland

7

121716

Grand Total

21

304,716

The data above covers the period from 26 October 2021 to 26 October 2022 and was extracted from the Post Import Management System.

There have been no imports of pheasant eggs for hatching and live pheasants from third countries in the last 12 months. This data was extracted from the Import of products, animals, food and feed system (IPAFFS).

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