Plants: Import Controls
Commons · Question 14723 · Tabled 18 Nov 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 29 Nov 2024
Question
Asked by Manuela Perteghella
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of (a) levels of risk and (b) rates of checks on plants at the UK border.
Answer
Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 29 Nov 2024
An enhanced risk-based approach is already undertaken at the UK border, where regulated plants and plant products have been categorised into high, medium, and low risk categories. The principle of risk-based controls, as previously applied under the EU re...