The government partially accepts this recommendation. As set out above, the newly established Illegal Imports Improvement Project brings together a range of workstreams and stakeholders to focus on delivery of meaningful improvements to the current illegal imports situation. The Goods Border Small Ministerial Group first met on 9 July 2025. We expect a second meeting to take place in the spring, although this is not confirmed. The group is chaired by the Home Office’s Minister for Legal Migration & Citizenship, with Baroness Hayman as an attendee alongside other border stakeholders. The group to date has been strategic in nature, examining issues like underinvestment in the goods border. Given the broad scope of the group, touching on a range of sensitive issues, and its nature as a cross-government ministerial meeting, we do not believe it would be appropriate to put minutes in the public domain. As set out in previous responses and at previous hearings, we believe the group can play a role in co-ordinating cross-government activity in response to illegal meat imports. For operational activity, there are more appropriate operational working groups and decision-making bodies already in existence, including the Animal Disease Policy Group and the Intelligence Working Group referred to in our response to the committee’s previous report on illegal meat. These groups do not form part of the same governance structure as the Goods Border SMG as was suggested, but they do complement each other. Where relevant we expect outputs of the project to be reviewed by the SMG.