Hunting: Land Use

(asked on 31st October 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many trail hunts have taken place on the defence estate each year since 2010.


Answered by
Alex Chalk Portrait
Alex Chalk
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
This question was answered on 3rd November 2022

The number of licences issued by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation allowing trail hunts on the Defence Estate, and the number of trail hunts which have taken place on the Defence Estate since 2010 can be found in the table below:

Season

Number of Licences Issued

Number of Trail Hunts which took place

2009-2010

Information not held

Information not held

2010-2011

Information not held

Information not held

2011-2012

32

269

2012-2013

30

273

2013-2014

Information not held

Information not held

2014-2015

29

252

2015-2016

30

223

2016-2017

30

210

2017-2018

28

192

2018-2019

28

184

2019-2020

26

136

2020-2021

20

154

2021-2022

30

246

2022-2023

18

225

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