Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the number of dogs that were commercially imported into the UK from other countries in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
The number of dogs imported commercially into the UK from the EU and the Rest of the World in 2020, 2021 and 2022 (1 January 2022- 31 July 2022) is shown below.
2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
66,952 | 78,299 | 27,097 |
This information is drawn from external TRACES and IPAFF systems not directly controlled by the department.