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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer question 115400, on Dogs: Smuggling, how many illegally imported puppies have been seized at Dover and Folkestone ports by the Animal and Plant Health Agency and placed into quarantine via the Puppy Pilot in the last six months.

From 1 October 2017 to 31 March 2018, 143 puppies were seized at Dover and Folkestone and placed into quarantine under the Puppy Pilot.