Question follow-through · 50546
Food: Import Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what criteria his Department uses to determine when bans on personal imports of food products should be implemented following disease outbreaks.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 7 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 13 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what criteria his Department uses to determine when bans on personal imports of food products should be implemented following disease outbreaks.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
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13 May 2025
Answer published
Personal imports of meat and dairy products from the European Union (EU) into Great Britain (GB) are subject to a transitional exemption from rules that apply to personal imports from outside the EU single market. As part of our national mission to protec...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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Animal Products: UK Trade with EU
20 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department plans to end temporary restrictions on the import of (a) meat, (b) dairy and (c) animal products from the European Union in the context of the World Organisation