Written questions

Food: Import Controls

Commons · Question 50546 · Tabled 7 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 13 May 2025

Question

Asked by Rosena Allin-Khan

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what criteria his Department uses to determine when bans on personal imports of food products should be implemented following disease outbreaks.

Answer

Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 13 May 2025

Personal imports of meat and dairy products from the European Union (EU) into Great Britain (GB) are subject to a transitional exemption from rules that apply to personal imports from outside the EU single market. As part of our national mission to protec...