Meat: Smuggling

(asked on 31st October 2025) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what quantity of illegal meat was seized at ports in England in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Mike Tapp Portrait
Mike Tapp
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
This question was answered on 10th November 2025

Since 1st April 2020 the following number of illegal meat imports were seized by Border Force across England:

Year

Total Seizures

Amount Seized in KG

1st April 2020 - 31st March 2021

1,232

14,529

1st April 2021 - 31st March 2022

1,511

19,832

1st April 2022 - 31st March 2023

1,462

34,590

1st April 2023 - 31st March 2024

1,823

70,978

1st April 2024 - 31st July 2024

632

40,164

More recent data is not held in an accessible format and cannot be obtained without incurring a disproportionate cost.

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