Question follow-through · 63527
Sheep Meat: Imports
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.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 30 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 3 Jul 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jun 2025
Question tabled
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.
3 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jul 2025
Answer published
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.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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