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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the value to the UK economy of the trade of trophy hunting imports in the last (a) 12 months, (b) five years and (c) 10 years.

The UK recorded 26 imports of hunting trophies under CITES in 2020, 327 imports in the five years from 2016 to 2020, and 731 imports in the ten years from 2011 to 2020.

As hunting trophies are considered personal effects, the commercial value of the items themselves is limited. Responses to the call for evidence, which ran from 2 November 2019 to 25 February 2020, suggested that the value to the UK economy of the trade of hunting trophy imports is likely to be low.

Further information will be published when legislation is brought forward in due course.