Dogs: Imports
Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate has she made of the number of dogs imported to the UK in the last three years; and from which country each such dog came.
James Paice (Minister of State (Agriculture and Food), Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; South East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
The following table details the number of dogs imported into the UK in the last three years.
| Live dogs imported into the UK | |
| Number | |
| 2009 | 90,331 |
| 2010 | 85,561 |
| 2011 | 87,601 |
The vast majority of pets entering the UK do so under the Pet Travel Scheme and belong to UK residents returning from trips abroad with their animals.
We are unable to break the above figures down by country.