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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ban the sale of real fur in the UK.

Fur farming has been banned in England and Wales since 2000 and since 2002 in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

There are restrictions on some skin and fur products which may never be legally imported into the UK. These include fur and products from cats and dogs, and seal skins and products from commercial hunts.

We have established controls on fur from endangered species protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and we do not allow imports of fur from wild animals caught using methods which are non-compliant with international humane trapping standards.

Now our future relationship with the EU has been established the government is considering any further steps it could take in relation to fur.