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

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many pet passports have been issued to UK pet owners in the past five years; and how many of those are still valid.

The Animal and Plant Health agency (APHA) issue blank pet passports to approved Official veterinarian (OV) practices in the United Kingdom who then issue these for cats, dogs and ferrets to move under the Pet Travel scheme. The table below records the numbers of blank pet passports issued to OV practices by APHA over the past five years. APHA does not record the number of pet passports issued by OV practices to individual animals.

The increase in the number of passports issued in 2015 reflects a revision to the document introduced in December 2014 through an EU Regulation covering pet movements.

Pet passports remain valid for the lifetime of the pet or until all of the treatment spaces in the document have been used. As such APHA does not hold information on invalid passports.