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African Swine Fever: Disease Control

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 12666, tabled on 4 November 2024

Question

Patrick Spencer
Conservative
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's guidance entitled African swine fever: how to spot and report the disease, updated on 27 September 2024, whether he plans to ban all personal imports of (a) pork and (b) pork products.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Labour
Cambridge
Commons

Answered on

4 December 2024

Preventing an outbreak of African swine fever in the UK is one of Defra’s key biosecurity priorities. The Department keeps policy on personal imports under constant review and works closely with the devolved governments on contingency planning and preventing an incursion from possibly infected goods.

We have already strengthened controls on personal imports of pork and pork products from the EU through the measures we introduced in September. We are working to develop a long-term policy on personal imports of products of animal origin and animal by-products, taking account of international examples.

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