Question follow-through · 26241
Animal Products: Smuggling
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.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 23 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2025 · 53 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jan 2025
Question tabled
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.
27 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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