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

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the implications for trade within the UK of the proposal to stop environmental checks on (1) meat, or (2) frozen locker products, leaving Northern Ireland for destinations in Great Britain.

HM Government is not aware of any proposals to stop environmental checks. Products of animal origin (POAO) from Northern Ireland (NI) moving in refrigerated trucks from NI into Great Britain benefit from unfettered market access. These movements are subject to the same hygiene requirements that any other movements of POAO are subject to within the UK.