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Horticulture: Import Controls

Commons · Question 22698 · Tabled 8 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 20 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Alicia Kearns

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to provide more data to horticulture businesses on (a) sanitary and phytosanitary border movements and (b) inspection rates generated from the Impor

Answer

Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 20 Jan 2025

Our checks are intelligence-led and based on biosecurity risk. To protect the integrity of this approach, we cannot share granular data on movements and inspections. Traders should continue to follow the published guidance which sets out Border Target Ope...