Animals: EU External Trade

(asked on 3rd December 2020) - View Source
Questioner
Jonathan Edwards Portrait
Jonathan Edwards
(Independent - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the total volume was of live animal exports from the EU to each (a) nation and (b) region of the UK in each financial year since 2015.

Answered by
Victoria Prentis Portrait
Victoria Prentis
Attorney General
This question was answered on 8th December 2020

The following table shows the volume of live animal exports from the EU to the UK in each financial year since 2015.

Financial year

tonnes

2015/16

77,800

2016/17

56,100

2017/18

59,000

2018/19

52,800

2019/20 (provisional)

50,700

The data provided for live animal imports includes farm animals (cattle, sheep, pigs etc.) as well as non-farm animals (exotic animals, race horses etc). Both breeding and non-breeding animals are included. Country and regional level trade data is not readily available, and has not been provided.

Data source: HMRC Overseas Trade Statistics

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