PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(22 January 2025)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many tonnes of (a) dangerous and (b) illegal meat were intercepted at the (i) Port of Dover, (ii) Port of Felixstowe, (iii) Port of Liverpool, (iv) Port of London, (v) Port of Grimsby and Immingham, (vi) Port of Southampton, (vii) Port of Tees and Hartlepool, (viii) Port of the Forth and (ix) Port of Belfast in each of the last five financial years.

Asked by:
Ben Goldsborough (Labour)

Please see the table below for total seizures of illegal meat, for full year on year. We are unable to provide further levels of detail as we do not release details of the location of seizure; this information could risk undermining border security, by providing intelligence in our resource deployment and targeting.

Total seizures for full year on year since 2022 are as follows:

2022 (Sept-Dec)	3745kg
2023	44,482kg
2024	92,270kg
2025*	5,593kg

*2025 runs from 3 to 10 January 2025

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