Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 76474
Meat: Smuggling
Tabled: 10 September 2025
Answered: 8 October 2025
Question
Gideon Amos
Liberal Democrat — Taunton and Wellington
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help protect the (a) animal and (b) plant export sector from risks posed by illegal meat imports.
Answer
Dame Angela EagleDefra is working with the Home Office, Border Force and Dover Port Health Authority to ensure that operations around detecting illegal meat imports are as effective as possible and have allocated this financial year £3.1 million to Dover Port Health Autho...
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