Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the levels of cross-channel food smuggling in each of the last five years.

Border Force work closely with the lead department DEFRA in relation to Products of Animals Origins and food smuggling data.

The DEFRA link below will provide further detail in relation to the questions asked:

www.gov.uk/guidance/import-or-move-food-and-drink-from-the-eu-and-northern-ireland-to-great-britain