Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 23681

Animal Products: Smuggling

Tabled: 13 January 2025
Answered: 29 January 2025

Question

Harriet Cross

ConservativeGordon and Buchan

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2024 to Question 12669 on Animal Products: Smuggling, if he will make an assessment of the likelihood of (a) banned and (b) African swine fever in

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Meat imported commercially via Border Control Posts is subject to local authority-led official controls to ensure that it complies with UK import conditions. The Home Office’s Border Force has lead responsibility for identifying and seizing meat imported ...

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