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753450

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Ivory: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutions there have been for the illegal trade in ivory in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Gedling
	tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
	uin	5800
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>A number of offences controlling the international trade in endangered species are created by the COTES Regulations 1997.</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Regulation 3: offences concerning false statements or notifications.</p></li><li><p>Regulation 4: offences of altering or wrongfully using a permit, certificate or import notification.</p></li><li><p>Regulation 6: contravening conditions or requirements of permits or certificates.</p></li><li><p>Regulation 8: offences of purchasing, acquiring, selling any specimen of a species for commercial purposes.</p></li></ul><p> </p><p>Although it is not possible to identify the number of prosecutions of particular offences, records are held showing the overall number of offences in which a prosecution commenced in the magistrates’ courts. The table below shows the number of offences, rather than defendants, charged by way of the COTES Regulations 1997 and Section 170(2) CEMA 1979 during each of the last five years. A single defendant may be charged with more than one offence.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2012-2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 { 3 }</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 { 4 }</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 { 6 }</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Enforcement) Regulations 1997 { 8 }</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>56</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 { 170(2) }</p></td><td><p>755</p></td><td><p>699</p></td><td><p>826</p></td><td><p>856</p></td><td><p>749</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>It is not possible to separately identify offences which concern the illegal trade in ivory or ivory products from other unlawful international trade in endangered species.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 05/09/2017 09:25:08 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

755775

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Ivory: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to stop the domestic ivory market.
	tabling member constituency	Eastleigh
	tabling member printed	Mims Davies
	uin	7408
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Bridgend, Madeleine Moon, on 26 July 2017, PQ UIN 5521.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 12/09/2017 12:59:47 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies

828182

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Ivory: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether a timetable has been set for the introduction of an ivory ban in the UK; and when he plans to publish the outcome of his Department’s consultation on banning UK sales of ivory.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	124142
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s consultation on proposals to ban UK sales of ivory closed on 29 December last year and we received over 70,000 responses. We are currently analysing the information provided and will publish our response to the consultation shortly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 26/01/2018 16:31:33 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

829848

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2018
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Ivory: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to prevent online sales of illegal ivory.
	tabling member constituency	Heywood and Middleton
	tabling member printed	Liz McInnes
	uin	124616
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2018 answer text <p>The National Wildlife Crime Unit assists law enforcers in their investigations and helps prevent and detect wildlife crime, including cybercrime related to the illegal sale of ivory.</p><p> </p><p>The issue of online sales was raised in response to our recent consultation on banning UK sales of ivory. We are considering this carefully, along with other issues, in developing the Government’s response to the consultation.</p><p> </p><p>Several online retailers have voluntarily banned the sale of ivory online.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 13/02/2018 10:45:28 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4342 label Biography information for Liz McInnes

856936

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Ivory: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when the Government plans to publish its response to the consultation on banning UK sales of ivory; and what assessment he has made of the time-scale for introducing a proposed ban.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	131448
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>We received over 70,000 responses to our consultation on banning sales of ivory in the UK, of which over 30,000 arrived in the final week. Many of the responses were very detailed and all must be carefully analysed to help inform our final policy. We will publish our response to the consultation shortly, including indications of next steps.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 14/03/2018 12:24:08 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

856937

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Ivory: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support the proposed EU ivory ban; and whether the Government has responded to the public consultation on ivory trade in the EU, which closed on 8 December 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	131449
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>The UK is leading global efforts to close legal domestic ivory markets that can contribute to poaching and the illegal wildlife trade. The UK does not authorise the sale of, or other commercial trade in, raw elephant ivory of any age. We have recently consulted on proposals to go further and ban all ivory sales in the UK subject to limited exemptions. At the EU Environment Council meeting on 5 March the UK, alongside France, called on the EU and its Member States to ban, as a first step, the commercial trade in raw ivory within the EU as soon as possible.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The UK supports the European Commission’s guidance, issued in May 2017, which recommended that, as of 1 July 2017, EU Member States should suspend issuing re-export certificates for raw ivory from the EU except in exceptional cases. This is in line with UK policy which has been in place over a decade.</p><p> </p><p>The European Commission has recently consulted to gather information and views on ivory trade within the EU to help inform what further steps the EU might take regarding ivory trade. The UK Government has not responded to this public consultation, as in April 2017, we responded to a European Commission questionnaire to EU Member States examining options for possible restrictions on ivory trade in and from the EU.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 16/03/2018 12:23:18 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

886246

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2018
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Ivory: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to ensure that closing markets for elephant ivory in the UK and internationally does not lead to increased demand for ivory from other species.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	136441
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>On 3 April the Government confirmed that we will implement a total ban on the sale of elephant ivory in the UK with narrow and limited exemptions. We intend to ban elephant ivory as it is the most commonly-found and traded form of ivory. We are aware of some concern that a ban on the sales of elephant ivory could lead to displacement of poaching to other ivory-bearing specifies. We would want to consider the evidential basis for this as well as the CITES listing for other ivory species prior to further legislative action.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 23/04/2018 16:49:41 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

887910

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2018
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Ivory: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what date he plans to introduce a UK-wide ban on ivory sales.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	136904
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>On 3 April the Government confirmed that it will introduce a total ban on the sale of ivory in the UK with narrow and limited exemptions. Primary legislation will be required to implement this ban and the Government will introduce a bill as soon as parliamentary time allows.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 25/04/2018 11:11:55 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron