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 DemocratTaunton 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 Eagle
Defra 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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