Reindeer: Imports
(asked on 21st November 2017) - 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 reindeer in how many consignments from which countries were imported into the UK in 2016; and if he will make a statement.
The number of reindeer and the number of consignments imported into the UK in 2016 is as follows:
Country from | Consignments | Animals |
Finland | 3 | 81 |
Netherlands | 1 | 17 |
Sweden* | 1 | 17 |
Switzerland | 1 | 4 |
The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) is not able to provide any data regarding the number of imports from countries outside the EEA, as data is not available.
* Exports of deer species, including reindeer and moose were banned from Norway and Sweden in October 2016 by the EU Commission as a special measure to protect deer species elsewhere in the EU. The consignment of reindeer from Sweden in the table above were imported into the UK in February 2016.