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Food: Smuggling

Question for Home Office

UIN 192274, tabled on 4 July 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the levels of cross-channel food smuggling in each of the last five years.

Answered on

10 July 2023

Border Force work closely with the lead department DEFRA in relation to Products of Animals Origins and food smuggling data.

The DEFRA link below will provide further detail in relation to the questions asked:

www.gov.uk/guidance/import-or-move-food-and-drink-from-the-eu-and-northern-ireland-to-great-britain

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