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Animal Products: Imports

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent progress his Department has made on banning trophy hunting imports.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
5 Jun 2025
Answer
5 Jun 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 2 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent progress his Department has made on banning trophy hunting imports.

  2. 5 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 5 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The Government committed to banning the import of hunting trophies in its manifesto and we will deliver on this. Defra continues to engage with relevant stakeholders to ensure that we can deliver a ban on the import of hunting trophies from species of con...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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