Question follow-through · 50987
Cheetahs: Hunting
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to continue approving permits for British trophy hunters who shoot Cheetahs to bring the trophies back to the UK.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 8 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 15 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
8 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to continue approving permits for British trophy hunters who shoot Cheetahs to bring the trophies back to the UK.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 May 2025
Answer published
The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), an executive agency of Defra, is responsible for issuing import permits for hunting trophies. APHA will continue to issue import permits only when the strict criteria set out in the UK Wildlife Trade Regulations ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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