Meat: Smuggling
Commons · Question 36294 · Tabled 6 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 21 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Freddie van Mierlo
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to review the (a) amount of funding and (b) current measures being used by the Border Force to seize illegal meat.
Answer
Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 21 Mar 2025
Successful Border Force-led operations resulted in the interception, seizure and safe disposal of some 114 tonnes of meat illegally imported into the United Kingdom in 2024. We are not complacent about illegal meat smuggling, which may pose threats to ani...