Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many seizures of illegal animal wildlife products have been made at UK ports of entry in each of the last five years.
The table below shows the number of seizures under CITES by Border Force (Convention in International Trade in Endangered Species).
Year | Number of seizures under CITES |
2011 | 422 |
2012 | 665 |
2013* | 569 |
2014* | 512 |
2015 (Jan to June 2015)* | 490 |
*These figures are published, and can be found on the GOV UK website.
The figures quoted above are management information, which are subject to internal quality checks and may be subject to change.
Link to website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/border-force-transparency-data-august-2015