Question follow-through · 109405
Agricultural Products: UK Trade with EU
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many lorries of perishable goods have been refused entry into Europe at the French border under the sanitary and phytosanitary arrangements in the last year.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 28 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 9 Feb 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many lorries of perishable goods have been refused entry into Europe at the French border under the sanitary and phytosanitary arrangements in the last year.
2 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Feb 2026
Answer published
Data on UK consignments refused entry at French Border Control Posts is generated and owned by the competent authorities in France, who are responsible for any publication or wider disclosure. We recognise that some GB exporters have seen an increase in r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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