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Animal Products: Smuggling

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 11 November 2025.

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Photo of Neil Hudson Neil Hudson Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) fines and (b) prosecutions have resulted from the illegal importation of products of animal origin in each of the last three years.

Photo of Angela Eagle Angela Eagle The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Defra does not hold this information.

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  • (Citation: HC Deb, 11 November 2025, cW)

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