Food: UK Trade with EU

(asked on 10th May 2022) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate he has made of his Department's expenditure on preparations for the implementation of proposed sanitary and phytosanitary checks on food imports from the EU as of 10 May 2022.


Answered by
Victoria Prentis Portrait
Victoria Prentis
Attorney General
This question was answered on 16th May 2022

Over the last two years Defra has worked with stakeholders and delivery partners to develop the capability to deliver new SPS border controls on goods arriving in England from the EU. The figures below cover IT delivery, staffing costs and infrastructure.

PQ 275/276

Implementation Preparations

Activity

21/22

22/23

Total

Digital Delivery

£10.77m

£0.00m

£10.77m

Includes IPAFFS and proportion of overheads

Imports Policy

£11.17m

£0.15m

£11.32m

Includes Plants and Animals

PHA Fund

£17.56m

£2.50m

£20.06m

£39.50m

£2.65m

£42.15m

Includes funds for PHA staff to end of April 2022

PQ 277/783

BCP Spend to date

Activity

21/22

22/23

Total

Infrastructure

£30.98m

£0.37m

£31.35m

Includes Sevington and Dover construction only, which are DEFRA funded.

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