Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her answer of the 20th April 2026 to Question UIN 124082, how many of the 533 shipments referenced in her response as having taken place between the 28th October 2025 and 2nd February 2026, which had exceeded the sixteen week deadline for the submission of post-shipment information by the 30th March 2026 and had provided incomplete information, and were therefore deemed non-compliant, have subsequently provided additional post shipment information including geo-tagged evidence in the form required.

The Environment Agency’s (EA) data is maintained as a rolling operational dataset. The EA is currently unable to identify how many of the shipments that were non-compliant in this period are now compliant. Collating it within the time available would incur disproportionate cost as each shipment would have to be checked manually.