To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what assessment he has made of the quarantine arrangements for travelling zoos and circuses involving performing animals. [12084]

Each animal subject to the Rabies (Importation of Dogs, Cats and Other Mammals) Order 1974 and imported into Great Britain from outside the British Isles is required to be quarantined for six months. In each case, the physical arrangements of the quarantine premises for containing the animal have to be shown to be satisfactory.