To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 6 March by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Official Report, columns 952–53, how many food sniffer dogs are available at (a) airports and (b) seaports. [129143]

I refer the hon. Gentlemen to the answer I gave him on 10 September. The additional information requested on the deployment of detector dogs is not available; exemption 4 (Law Enforcement and legal proceedings) of the, Code of Practice on Access to Government Information applies to all such information about Customs anti-smuggling activities.