Question follow-through · 106687
Meat: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure imported meat does not adversely impact disease prevention in farming and animal disease prevention zones.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 19 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 29 Jan 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure imported meat does not adversely impact disease prevention in farming and animal disease prevention zones.
21 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jan 2026
Answer published
Meat import controls include measures to prevent spread of animal disease such as veterinary health certification and border control post checks. On farm biosecurity plays a key role in protecting farms from exotic diseases and can mitigate the risk of sp...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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