National Wildlife Crime Unit: Finance

(asked on 13th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans, if any, they have permanently to fund the National Wildlife Crime Unit to ensure that the proposed ivory ban can be enforced.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 17th November 2017

Together with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and other partners, the Home Office funds the National Wildlife Crime Unit. The Government has made a commitment to fund the Unit until 2020 and the end of this spending review period.

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