Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 87112

Animal Products: Smuggling

Tabled: 31 October 2025
Answered: 11 November 2025
Named Day

Question

Dr Neil Hudson

ConservativeEpping Forest

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of establishing national taskforce to tackle illegal imports of (a) meat and (b) animal products.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
Defra is considering this recommendation in the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee’s report on meat smuggling.