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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has contacted the International Union for Conservation of Nature to request its view on the potential impact of the Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill on wildlife numbers in Africa.

Our approach on hunting trophies has been informed by our consultation and call for evidence on controls on the import and export of hunting trophies which ran between 2 November 2019 and 25 February 2020. As part of this exercise, we sought and received views and evidence from a wide range of stakeholders, including the International Union of the Conservation of Nature Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group.

The summary of responses and the Government response to the consultation were published in December 2021 and are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/hunting-trophies-call-for-evidence.