Question follow-through · 126319
Meat: Import Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential biosecurity risk of illegal meat seized in the first four months of 2025; and whether any of this meat tested positive for (a) African Swi
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 10 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 17 Apr 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential biosecurity risk of illegal meat seized in the first four months of 2025; and whether any of this meat tested positive for (a) African Swi
14 Apr 2026
Target answer date
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17 Apr 2026
Answer published
Protecting UK biosecurity remains paramount, and this Government will do whatever it takes to protect farmers. Defra does not require port health authorities to routinely test or analyse samples of illegally imported meat seized at the UK border for notif...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Fires
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