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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of horses not properly registered under passport and micro-chipping regulations in the UK.

Defra has not made an estimate of the number of horses not properly registered and identified under passport and micro-chipping regulations in the UK. Local Authorities are responsible for enforcing the regulations and prosecuting owners of unidentified horses, and records of these are not held centrally.