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Food: Smuggling

Question for Home Office

UIN 192275, tabled on 4 July 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with (a) the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, (b) police forces, (c) the National Crime Agency, (d) HMRC and (e) the Food Standards Agency on the traffic of illicit and counterfeit food goods across the channel.

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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