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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she had made with Cabinet colleagues of the adequacy of the (a) resources for and (b) capacity of border control posts in Northern Ireland.

The existing sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) facilities in Northern Ireland are temporary and the Government's position has always been that these will need to be enhanced. Defra has worked closely, and will continue to do so, with multiple Government departments, and I can confirm that the resources for, and capacity of, the planned SPS inspection facilities are sufficient to meet the requirements committed to under the Windsor Framework.