Horses: Imports

Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 1 July 2013.

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Photo of Mary Creagh Mary Creagh Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 20 March 2013, Official Report, columns 699-700W, on horses: France, from which country each horse imported from third (non EU) countries was imported from in each of the last four years.

Photo of David Heath David Heath The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

holding answer 24 June 2013

Pursuant to my answer of 20 March 2013, Hansard, columns 699-700W, I can confirm that the number of horses imported into the UK from third (non EU) countries during 2011 was 1,877 and not 6,502, as indicated in the original answer. I apologise for any inconvenience caused by this administrative error.

A revised grid appears as follows:

Country 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
United Arab Emirates 313 350 427 413 409
Argentina 780 192 425 382 318
Australia 119 131 86 83 97
Bermuda 0 0 1 0 0
Barbados 1 0 0 0 0
Bahrain 0 3 0 0 9
Brazil 47 16 31 19 25
Belarus 0 1 0 0 2
Canada 73 44 69 70 71
Switzerland 1 0 0 . 0 0
Chile 14 24 6 5 10
China 0 0 3 0 0
Egypt 2 3 0 0 0
Hong Kong 53 15 13 16 18
Croatia 20 0 1 6 0
Israel 3 0 0 1 2
Iceland 9 4 6 15 17
Kuwait 0 0 1 0 0
Japan 15 13 7 17 8
Libya 0 3 0 0 0
Mauritius 156 53 0 101 63
Jordan 0 0 0 0 1
Mexico 3 2 0 1 3
Malaysia 8 2 2 0 0
Morocco 0 3 6 5 11
New -Zealand 91 36 55 63 47
Oman 13 22 48 24 141
Peru 1 0 0 0 0
Qatar .17 8 7 13 23
Russian Federation 6 11 10 8 19
Saudi Arabia 2 3 2 4 1
Serbia 0 3 0 0 0
Singapore 6 14 8 7 11
Syria 2 0 0 0 0
Thailand 0 0 0 6 2
Turkey 16 11 17 27 22
Ukraine 12 4 3 0 16
USA 955 828 675 575 647
Uruguay 52 7 5 16 20
South Africa 81 60 99 0 6
Totals 2,871 1,866 2,013 1,877 2,019

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