Question follow-through · 82012

Meat: Smuggling

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much illegally imported meat coming has been seized in 2025.

answeredHome Office

About this written question

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
20 Oct 2025
Answer
21 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 14 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much illegally imported meat coming has been seized in 2025.

  2. 20 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    Due to the way in which meat seizures are recorded, the data requested is not available in an accessible format.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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