Speeches

David Hanson – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Hanson on 2015-10-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many seizures of illegal animal wildlife products have been made at UK ports of entry in each of the last five years.

James Brokenshire

The table below shows the number of seizures under CITES by Border Force (Convention in International Trade in Endangered Species).

Year

Number of seizures under CITES

2011

422

2012

665

2013*

569

2014*

512

2015 (Jan to June 2015)*

490

*These figures are published, and can be found on the GOV UK website.

The figures quoted above are management information, which are subject to internal quality checks and may be subject to change.

Link to website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/border-force-transparency-data-august-2015