Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the answer of 8 January 2013, Official Report, column 207W, on livestock: transport, if he will (a) publish the names of operators of the vehicles approved and certified for the transport of live animals for export to EU member states who have had their licences suspended and (b) the duration of each such suspension.
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Answer
In my answer of 8 January 2013, Official Report, column 207W, I made it clear that the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency had used their regulatory powers to suspend the use in Great Britain of 10 vehicles used by transporters authorised in another member state that had been approved and certified in another member state and that their use in Great Britain would remain suspended until such a time as the identified faults have been rectified.
For the reasons set out in my written answer of 26 February 2013, Official Report, column 394W, it would not be proper to publish this information.