Meat: Smuggling
(asked on 15th September 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many seizures of illegally imported meat products have been made at UK borders in each of the last three years.
Answered by
Stephen Morgan
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Information on the number of seizures of imported products of animal origin is published by Border Force in the Multi-Annual National Control Plan (MANCP) annual reports.
The latest report, published on GOV.UK here, gives the latest available data on the annual number of seizures of imported products of animal origin as:
2022/23 - 3069
2023/24 - 2896
2024/25 - 2987
These figures may be amended in later MANCP annual reports to correct any errors found.