Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 103472

Horses: Import Controls

Tabled: 6 January 2026
Answered: 13 January 2026
Named Day

Question

Helen Morgan

Liberal DemocratNorth Shropshire

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

Dame Angela Eagle
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...

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