Dogs: Smuggling
(asked on 5th February 2020) - 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 puppies were seized at the ports of a) Dover and b) Folkestone and placed in quarantine under the Puppy Pilot scheme in each month between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2019.
The number of dogs seized and taken into quarantine at the ports of Dover and Folkestone for each month of 2019 was as follows.
Year | Month | Inspection location | Puppies Quarantined |
2019 | January | Eurotunnel | 5 |
Dover | 10 | ||
February | Eurotunnel | 2 | |
Dover | 4 | ||
March | Eurotunnel | 2 | |
Dover | 12 | ||
April | Eurotunnel | 5 | |
Dover | 5 | ||
May | Eurotunnel | 3 | |
Dover | 9 | ||
June | Eurotunnel | 7 | |
Dover | 8 | ||
July | Eurotunnel | 0 | |
Dover | 0 | ||
August | Eurotunnel | 11 | |
Dover | 3 | ||
September | Eurotunnel | 6 | |
Dover | 2 | ||
October | Eurotunnel | 5 | |
Dover | 5 | ||
November | Eurotunnel | 6 | |
Dover | 7 | ||
December | Eurotunnel | 0 | |
Dover | 17 |
The number of animals detained in quarantine for Eurotunnel may also include dogs that were seized at Coquelles and moved into the United Kingdom for quarantine purposes.