Oral Question·Home Office
“If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 23 September 2021Answered: 18 October 2021
Asked by
Kate Osborne
Labour — Jarrow and Gateshead East
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for the Home Department
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Kirsty McNeill)
Under the Windsor framework arrangements, the Northern Ireland plant health label allows growers and traders to move plants and seeds for planting from Great Britain to Northern Ireland without a phytosanitary certificate, and Scottish businesses have benefited from that. For example, more than 1,500 tonnes of previously prohibited seed potatoes, mostly from Scottish traders, were moved to Northern Ireland from Great Britain last year.