Meat: Smuggling

(asked on 5th June 2025) - View Source
Questioner
Neil Hudson Portrait
Neil Hudson
(Conservative - Epping Forest)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 31 October 2024 to Question 10799 on Meat: Smuggling, how much illegal meat was seized (a) from 11 October 2024 to 31 December 2024 and (b) in 2025.

Answered by
Daniel Zeichner Portrait
Daniel Zeichner
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 10th June 2025

Illegal meat seized figures captured as part of Defra's African Swine Fever Programme:

  • Between 11 October 2024 – 21 December 2024, 49,912kg seized.
  • Between 3 January 2025 – 18 April, 72,872kg seized.

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