Hunting: Licensing
(asked on 31st October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many licences his Department has issued to allow trail hunts to be permitted on the Defence Estate in each year since 2010.
The number of licences issued by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation allowing trail hunts on the Defence Estate, and the number of trail hunts which have taken place on the Defence Estate since 2010 can be found in the table below:
Season | Number of Licences Issued | Number of Trail Hunts which took place |
2009-2010 | Information not held | Information not held |
2010-2011 | Information not held | Information not held |
2011-2012 | 32 | 269 |
2012-2013 | 30 | 273 |
2013-2014 | Information not held | Information not held |
2014-2015 | 29 | 252 |
2015-2016 | 30 | 223 |
2016-2017 | 30 | 210 |
2017-2018 | 28 | 192 |
2018-2019 | 28 | 184 |
2019-2020 | 26 | 136 |
2020-2021 | 20 | 154 |
2021-2022 | 30 | 246 |
2022-2023 | 18 | 225 |