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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many pheasant and partridge (a) poults and (b) fertilised eggs were imported into the UK in (i) 2018 and (ii) 2019; and how many of those imports came from breeding birds kept in cages.

The number of live pheasants and partridges, and the number of pheasant-hatching eggs imported into the UK from the EU in 2018 and 2019 can be found below. There were no imports of partridge-hatching eggs recorded during this period:

The data was extracted from TRACES (Trade Control and Expert System) which is a European Commission system employed by EU member states to facilitate and record animal and animal product movements throughout the EU.

It is not possible to differentiate between poults and adult birds using TRACES. It is also not possible to identify how many of these imports came from breeding birds kept in cages.

The information provided is a true reflection of the data available. This is entered into TRACES by a third party, and therefore we cannot verify its accuracy.