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Sheep Meat: Imports

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 63527, tabled on 30 June 2025

Question

Mr Gregory Campbell
Democratic Unionist Party
East Londonderry
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data his Department holds on the change in the quantity of sheep meat imports from Ireland between 2022 and 2024.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Labour
Cambridge
Commons

Answered on

3 July 2025

Data held by the UK Government shows the net mass (kg) of sheep meat moving from Ireland to Great Britain dropped from 9.4kt in 2022 to 6.9kt in 2024. This data is published at: Overseas trade data table.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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