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

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they plan to take to maintain collection of plant biosecurity risk data when routine border controls are removed as part of the future UK-EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary agreement.

The Government is currently negotiating a Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Agreement to make agrifood trade with our biggest market cheaper and easier, cutting costs and removing trade barriers for British producers and retailers. While those negotiations are ongoing, the Government cannot comment further on the SPS agreement, but it will mean the UK will work jointly with the EU on threats to the UK’s biosecurity.