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Shropshire

Daniel Kawczynski: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the value was of each grant provided by his Department, its associated agencies and non-departmental public bodies to (a) Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council, (b) Shropshire County Council and (c) Telford and the Wrekin Borough Council in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08; and what grants have been planned for 2008-09. [184096]

Yvette Cooper: The Treasury does not give grants to individual local authorities. Information on grants provided by the Department’s agencies and non- departmental public bodies is held by the bodies themselves. This information is not held centrally.

Smuggling: Animal Products

Mr. Paice: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much has been allocated to tackle illegal imports of products of animal origin in each of the last five years. [185625]

Jonathan Shaw: I have been asked to reply.

The Government have significantly increased the amount of money available to tackle illegal imports of Products of Animal Origin (POAO), plants and Plant Based Goods (PBG).

An extra £26 million was spent over the three years 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06. This money was split between DEFRA, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) as shown as follows:

£ million
	HMRC( 1)	FSA( 2)	DEFRA( 3)
2003-04	4	1.5	0.5
2004-05	7	2	1
2005-06	7	2	1
(1) Enforcement and publicity (2) Step change project with local/port health authorities (3) Publicity and risk assessment

From 2006-07 HMRC has continued to fund its enforcement activities in line with public service agreement target commitments. Funding continues to be available for DEFRA to examine the risks and help increase public awareness (£500,000 in 2006-07 and £590,590 in 2007-08), and for the FSA for work on inland controls.

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Smuggling: Meat

Mr. Paice: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many seizures of illegal meat imported into the UK were made in each year since 2001, broken down by (a) country of origin and (b) product type; and what the total weight seized in each year was. [185623]

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Jonathan Shaw: I have been asked to reply.

During the period 1 April 2001 to 31 March 2002, the number of seizures of illegal meat was 1,242 and Weight (kg) was 18,955. Statistics by specific region are not available for that period.

Seizures of illegal meat for 2002 to 2007 are listed by region in the following table.

		1 April to 31 March each year
		2002-03		2003-04		2004-05		2005-06		2006-07
Region ID	Region name	Number of seizures	Wgt (kg)	Number of seizures	Wgt (kg)	Number of seizures	Wgt (kg)	Number of seizures	Wgt (kg)	Number of times seized	Wgt (kg)	Vol (ltrs)
1	Eastern Europe	343	1,998	838	4,479	1,487	5,355	2,734	11,261	3,125	11,040.98	9,920
2	Eastern Africa	91	679	243	2,684	286	2,574	656	5,484	647	3,343.27	0
3	North Africa	10	14,119	53	361	113	617	263	1,179	394	1,225.29	1,200
4	Central Africa	14	148	61	550	78	573	97	511	130	730.54	2,000
5	Southern Africa	542	1,536	1,004	2,235	1,181	2,699	1,541	2,352	1,625	2,359.40	1,550
6	Western Africa	532	3,331	910	34,267	1,492	10,664	1,915	11,639	2,059	8,918.23	2,640
7	North America	124	298	402	2,706	720	2,333	693	1,647	656	1,427.28	256
8	Caribbean	237	826	279	1,617	451	2,171	567	2,320	722	2,215.70	0
9	Central and South America	43	183	102	346	132	544	175	2,037	252	2,799.13	0
10	Eastern Asia	549	5,182	1,486	9,664	2,807	23,662	3,471	41,618	5,795	18,735.59	2,380
11	Southern Asia	132	501	319	1,709	633	3,002	757	4,208	1,205	7,746.80	1
12	South East Asia	32	107	85	212	179	486	143	1,715	184	380.67	0
13	Near and Middle East	235	1,421	760	10,364	1,133	14,484	1,527	18,401	2,100	9,579.50	400
14	Oceania	31	503	127	326	131	411	124	453	80	17,698.86	0
15	European	19	52	60	714	8	7,943	7	30	14	65.84	0
16	Unknown	52	417	81	500	156	1,146	156	1,280	266	2,059.64	520
Total		2,986	31,301	6,810	72,734	10,987	78,664	14,826	106,135	19,254	90,326.72	20,867

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