Food: Smuggling
Commons · Question 53659 · Tabled 20 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 27 May 2025
Question
Asked by Matt Vickers
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the quantity of illegal food products that have entered the UK in the last six months.
Answer
Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 27 May 2025
It is not possible to estimate the amount of illegal food products which have evaded border checks and entered the UK in the last six months. Data supplied by Border Force to the end of 2024 indicates that it detained and seized 137,000 kilograms of illeg...