Horses: Import Controls
Commons · Question 103472 · Tabled 6 Jan 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 13 Jan 2026
Question
Asked by Helen Morgan
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to speed up the processing of (a) equines and (b) equine semen at border control points.
Answer
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 13 Jan 2026
To protect GB biosecurity, official import controls are undertaken at Border Control Posts (BCP) on consignments of equine semen from all countries and equines from countries other than EU and EFTA. Import controls on equines from EU and EFTA countries ta...