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1654870

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date	20/07/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Animal Products: Import Controls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the number of vets available to carry out veterinary checks on the imports of animal products arriving in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	195522
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2023 answer text <p>GB Border Control Point (BCP) operators are required to provide sufficient on-site staff, including Official Veterinarians where necessary, to carry out required import checks. BCP designations are only granted where there is evidence that vet capacity will meet demand. BCPs are also regularly audited by the Animal and Plant Health Agency to ensure they continue to have the correct levels of staffing to deliver import controls on products of animal origin.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 04/09/2023 16:21:14 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1654872

registered interest
date	20/07/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Animal Products: Import Controls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many registered vets are there who are qualified to carry out import checks on animal products arriving in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	195524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2023 answer text <p>Official Veterinarians (OVs) are used by both the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) and Port Health Authorities to carry out checks on imports that are required of them, and some of that OV resource is recruited on a contractual basis. We do not hold data for the number of registered OVs in the UK able to perform such functions. However, Border Control Post (BCP) designations are only granted where there is evidence that vet capacity will meet demand. BCPs are also regularly audited by APHA to ensure they continue to have the correct levels of staffing to deliver import controls on products of animal origin.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 04/09/2023 16:15:59 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1543641

registered interest
date	18/11/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Animal Products: Import Controls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of trends in public opinion on banning the importation of animal products, including fur, where the production methods used are already illegal in the UK; if she will make it her policy to legislate for such a ban; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	90784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government shares the public's high regard for animal welfare. Our commitment to improve animal welfare standards is set out in the Action Plan for Animal Welfare.</p><p>In May 2021, Defra published a formal call for evidence on the fur trade in Great Britain. We received around 30,000 responses from businesses, representative bodies, and individuals, demonstrating the strong public interest in this area. We are carefully reviewing the evidence gathered both from our Call for Evidence and wider engagement with the fur trade and stakeholders, and a summary of responses will be published soon.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 01/12/2022 13:42:34 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1491762

registered interest
date	21/07/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Animal Products: Import Controls
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many seizures of imported (1) products of animal origin, and (2) pig meat, have been made in the last three years.
tabling member printed	Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
uin	HL2028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/08/2022 answer text <p>Border Force holds the data on seizures of imported products of animal origin, including meat. Data on seizures of pig meat specifically is unavailable.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 09/08/2022 11:55:31 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering