Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 18 March 2014.
Matthew Offord
Conservative, Hendon
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which CITES Annex A and B listed species have been (a) imported into and (b) exported from the UK in each of the last five years; and what the reasons for each such import and export were.
George Eustice
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This information can be provided only at disproportionate cost because of the amount of staff time it would require for the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency to extract this information from its licensing database. For example, in 2013 there were a total of 22,143 applications to import, export or re-export CITES Annex A species covering 1,217 different species.
The CITES Secretariat publishes a trade database that currently holds 7 million records of trade in wildlife and 50,000 scientific names of taxa listed by CITES. The database can be accessed at:
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