Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 49412

Fruit: Import Controls

Tabled: 30 April 2025
Answered: 8 May 2025
Named Day

Question

Helen Whately

ConservativeFaversham and Mid Kent

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that importers of fresh fruit from outside the UK receive timely advance notification of border inspections.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Businesses must notify the competent authorities in advance of a consignment arriving in GB when it contains High risk or Medium A risk plants and plant products as they are subject to phytosanitary controls. Upon completion of the notification an initial...

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