Question follow-through · 76474
Meat: Smuggling
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.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 10 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 8 Oct 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
10 Sept 2025
Question tabled
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.
15 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Oct 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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