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Dairy Products and Meat: Import Controls

Commons · Question 50033 · Tabled 2 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 19 May 2025

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Asked by Edward Morello

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that appropriate biosecurity checks are conducted on (a) vehicles and (b) goods arriving in the UK from France, following the introduction

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Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 19 May 2025

This Government has stepped up measures to prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease (FMD), following a further confirmed case in Hungary, close to the Austrian border. The Government has already banned personal imports of cattle, sheep and other rumin...