Oral Question·Scotland Office
“What assessment he has made of the adequacy of support available to Scottish plant and seed nurseries to sell products to Northern Ireland.”
Tabled: 8 April 2025Answered: 23 April 2025
Asked by
Robin Swann
Ulster Unionist Party — South Antrim
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Scotland
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.