Pets: Animal Housing
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) dog and (b) cat places were licensed by the Animal and Plant Health Agency for quarantine in each year since 2014.
Answered by Daniel Zeichner
The Animal and Plant Health Agency only holds information on the number of quarantine kennels (QKs) that have been approved from 2017. The table below details the number of approved premises for each year:
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Number of QKs approved - dogs | 9 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 |
Number of QKs approved - cats | 9 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
The numbers provided only cover quarantine kennels that are for public use as pet quarantine kennels. We have not included rabies quarantine facilities which includes zoo quarantine premises, research quarantine premises and 48 hours temporary holdings at ports/airports.
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