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Meat: Smuggling

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 10799, tabled on 23 October 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much illegal meat coming into the UK was seized in (a) 2023 and (b) 2024.

Answered on

31 October 2024

Illegal meat seizures data captured as part of Defra’s African Swine Fever programme:

  • 2023, 552 seizures, totalling 44,482 kg
  • 2024 (Jan- 11 Oct 2024), 576 seizures, totalling 42,470 kg