Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 8 January 2013, Official Report, column 209W, on livestock: transport, on which occasions the Chief Veterinary Officer has discussed with or written to the head of veterinary services of an EU member state on transport of livestock.
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Answer
In the last 12 months, the chief veterinary officer (CVO) has written four times to heads of veterinary services, or to equivalent senior officials in other member states, on issues relating to the transport of livestock. He will also have occasionally discussed welfare in transport issues in the Standing Committee of the Food Chain and Animal Health, and at informal CVO meetings.