Information since 17 Mar 2025, 10:59 a.m.
Select Committee Documents |
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Wednesday 23rd April 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence from the Permanent Secretary regarding post-legislative scrutiny, dated 10 April 2025 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Found: Marsham Street London SW1P 4DF T 03459 335577 defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk www.gov.uk/defra 2 Ivory Act |
Written Answers |
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Ivory: Imports
Asked by: Angus MacDonald (Liberal Democrat - Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire) Tuesday 15th July 2025 Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the UK’s ban on importing ivory on (a) historically and (b) artistically significant ivory. Answered by Mary Creagh - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) The Ivory Act 2018 bans dealing in ivory, including imports to and exports from the UK for the purposes of dealing.
The Act includes an exemption to the ban for pre-1918 items of outstandingly high artistic, cultural or historical value. An exemption certificate must be issued before an item can be legally dealt under this exemption.
Since the Act came into force in 2022, 346 applications for exemption certificates have been submitted and 284 exemption certificates have been issued. |
Secondary Legislation |
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Ivory Prohibitions (Exemptions) (Process and Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 These Regulations amend the Schedule to the Ivory Prohibitions (Exemptions) (Process and Procedure) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/94) to prescribe three additional institutions that the Secretary of State considers possess the necessary knowledge and expertise to provide him with advice on applications for exemption certificates under the Ivory Act 2018 (c. 30). Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Parliamentary Status - Text of Legislation - Made negative Laid: Thursday 24th April - In Force: 15 May 2025 Found: Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 2(5) of the Ivory Act |
APPG Publications |
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Animal Welfare APPG Document: Wildlife Crime Unit Funding Letter Found: Government’s commitment to animal welfare has been demonstrated with positive measures like the Ivory Act |
Department Publications - Guidance |
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Thursday 22nd May 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Source Page: Check if your item from an endangered species is a worked specimen Document: Check if your item from an endangered species is a worked specimen (webpage) Found: Britain, but you must still register the item under a standard exemption in accordance with the Ivory Act |
Non-Departmental Publications - Guidance and Regulation |
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Jun. 03 2025
Animal and Plant Health Agency Source Page: Ivory Act 2018 enforcement and civil sanctions Document: Ivory Act 2018 enforcement and civil sanctions (webpage) Guidance and Regulation Found: Ivory Act 2018 enforcement and civil sanctions |
Scottish Parliamentary Research (SPICe) |
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Scottish Parliament Statistics 2023-2024
Tuesday 25th March 2025 None View source webpage Found: Regulations 2024 - PH/051/R -; The Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Enforcement Regulations 2024; The Ivory Act |
Scottish Parliament Statistics 2023-2024
Tuesday 25th February 2025 None View source webpage Found: Regulations 2024 - PH/051/R -; The Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Enforcement Regulations 2024; The Ivory Act |
Welsh Government Publications |
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Thursday 24th April 2025
Source Page: Written Statement: The Ivory Prohibitions (Exemptions) (Process and Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (24 April 2025) Document: Written Statement: The Ivory Prohibitions (Exemptions) (Process and Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (24 April 2025) (webpage) Found: ) Regulations 2025’ (“the UKSI”) before the UK Parliament in exercise of powers conferred by the Ivory Act |
Welsh Senedd Debates |
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4. Inter-institutional relations agreement
None speech (None words) Monday 28th April 2025 - None |
Welsh Senedd Speeches |
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No Department |