Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2020 to Question 54850 on Wine: Imports, what assessment he has made of the (a) financial and (b) other costs for (a) EU wine exporters, (b) UK wine importers and (c) UK wine consumers of the introduction at the end of the transition period of full VI-1 import certificates for wine imported into the UK from the EU.

The Government has not conducted an assessment of the financial or other costs of introducing VI-1 import certificates for wine imported into the UK from the EU at the end of the transition period.

The Government recognises that businesses need time to make the necessary adaptations to meet the requirement for import certification on wine imported to Great Britain from the EU and we are therefore legislating to delay the introduction until 1 July 2021.

Defra officials are working closely with UK industry to ensure we have the capability to meet the equivalent EU requirement being introduced on 1 January 2021.