HC Deb 07 November 2002 vol 392 c578W
Mr. Lidington

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, when she expects(a) the new DEFRA inspection team and (b) the sniffer dogs to be deployed at Heathrow. [79175]

Margaret Beckett

A new Local/Port Health Authority team to undertake additional checks for illegal imports, funded by Defra, is due to start work at Heathrow on 12 November. The detector dog pilot started at Heathrow on 16 September.