Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 26241

Animal Products: Smuggling

Tabled: 23 January 2025

Answered: 17 March 2025

Question

Rachel Gilmour

Liberal Democrat — Tiverton and Minehead

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many tonnes of (a) illegal and (b) banned products of animal origin (POAO) have been seized at the Port of Dover since September 2022.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner

Please see the table below for total seizures of illegal meat year on year. The figures quoted are seizures from all ports who had returned seizure data to us from September 2022 onwards as part of Defra African Swine Fever programme. This does not reflec...

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