| Heading: |
Food: Smuggling |
| Question ID: |
1804621 |
| UIN: |
53659 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-20 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4844 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Matt Vickers
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Matt Vickers
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
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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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-27 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4382 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Daniel Zeichner
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| Answering Member handle: |
danielzeichner
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@danielzeichner
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| Answer text: |
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... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |