Meat: Smuggling

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 10 June 2025.

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Photo of Neil Hudson Neil Hudson Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 31 October 2024 to Question 10799 on Meat: Smuggling, how much illegal meat was seized (a) from 11 October 2024 to 31 December 2024 and (b) in 2025.

Photo of Daniel Zeichner Daniel Zeichner The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Illegal meat seized figures captured as part of Defra's African Swine Fever Programme:

  • Between 11 October 2024 – 21 December 2024, 49,912kg seized.
  • Between 3 January 2025 – 18 April, 72,872kg seized.

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