Animal Products: Import Controls
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what percentage of consignments of products of animal-origin were taken, after being flagged, from Dover to the Border Control Post in Sevington from December 2025 to May 2026.
Answered by Stephen Morgan
Checks at the border are intelligence-led and based on biosecurity risk. To protect the integrity of these controls, detailed operational data on inspections is not routinely published. Data is not held in the form requested. Available data relates to whether vehicles rather than consignments attended Sevington Border Control Post.
However, for the period December 2025 to April 2026 (as May data is not yet available), we can advise that for Port Health 71.7% of vehicles listed on the manifest for CHED-P and CHED-D arrived at the Sevington Border Control Post. The remaining 28.3% did not attend.
Non-attendance is followed up by Ashford Port Health and recorded in PHILIS to establish the reason. Non-attendance does not necessarily indicate non-compliance. For example, consignments may not have been loaded or shipped and therefore did not enter Great Britain, may have travelled under a different vehicle registration, or may have been processed through an alternative point of entry or control point.
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