Home Department written question – answered at on 4 March 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many orchids have been confiscated at UK borders in each of the last five years.
Border Force does not specifically record the number of orchids seized at the border but groups items under a live plants heading. The most recent published data on live plants and their derivatives seized, which was provided to the Environmental Audit Committee on Wildlife Crime, is shown in the following table.
Seizures | Number of Items Seized | Weight of Items Seized (kg) | |
2008-09 | 53 | 2,100 | 1,124.2 |
2009-10 | 38 | 36,393 | 23,109.3 |
2010-11 | 28 | 4,921 | 19,457.0 |
The figures and the transcript of the committee hearing can be found at:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmenvaud/140/140.pdf
Data for 2011-12 and the current year have not been published.
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