I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for producing evidence, but he has left me more confused. When I looked at it, I found that the August 2016 report by Traffic, “A Rapid Survey of UK Ivory Markets”, stated that links between the antiques trade and
“the current elephant poaching crisis appear tenuous at best.”
Of more than 3,000 objects sampled, no new or unworked ivory was found. Only one item from the 1960s came after the 1947 cut-off date for antique ivory. Are we reading different reports?
[Mrs Anne Main in the Chair.]