Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 14723
Plants: Import Controls
Tabled: 18 November 2024
Answered: 29 November 2024
Named DayQuestion
Manuela Perteghella
Liberal Democrat — Stratford-on-Avon
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of (a) levels of risk and (b) rates of checks on plants at the UK border.
Answer
Daniel ZeichnerAn enhanced risk-based approach is already undertaken at the UK border, where regulated plants and plant products have been categorised into high, medium, and low risk categories. The principle of risk-based controls, as previously applied under the EU re...
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