| Heading: |
Meat: Import Controls |
| Question ID: |
1781169 |
| UIN: |
35543 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-04 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5296 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Freddie van Mierlo
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Freddie van Mierlo
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to review the (a) amount of funding for and (b) effectiveness of the current measures used by the Border Force to seize illegal meat. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-21 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4382 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Daniel Zeichner
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| Answering Member handle: |
danielzeichner
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@danielzeichner
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| Answer text: |
Successful Border Force-led operations resulted in the interception, seizure and safe disposal of some 114 tonnes of meat illegally imported into the United Kingdom in 2024. We are not complacent about illegal meat smuggling, which may pose threats to ani... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |