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Food: Import controls

Asked by Sarah BoolConservativeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 1 December 2025UIN 73053

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 30 April 2025 to Question 47160 on Food: Import Controls, what additional funding has been provided to ports and airports relating to the ban on personal imports of meats and diary products from EU countries.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

Defra is currently funding Dover Port Health Authority to help identify illegal meat and dairy imports. We have not provided additional funding to ports and airports relating to the ban on personal imports of certain meat and dairy products from EU countries.

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