Question follow-through · 53659
Food: Smuggling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the quantity of illegal food products that have entered the UK in the last six months.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 20 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 May 2025
- Answer
- 27 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the quantity of illegal food products that have entered the UK in the last six months.
22 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 May 2025
Answer published
It is not possible to estimate the amount of illegal food products which have evaded border checks and entered the UK in the last six months. Data supplied by Border Force to the end of 2024 indicates that it detained and seized 137,000 kilograms of illeg...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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