Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 75652

Import Controls: Inspections

Tabled: 8 September 2025

Answered: 15 September 2025

Named Day

Question

Stephen Gethins

Scottish National Party — Arbroath and Broughty Ferry

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many inspections Border Control Posts have conducted since 2022; and at what cost to the public purse.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

Checks at Border Control Posts (BCPs) are intelligence-led and based on biosecurity risk. To protect the integrity of this approach, we cannot share data on volumes of inspections. Regarding the cost to the public purse, the only UK Government run BCP is ...

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