Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the indication by the European Commission that it will not implement new arrangements for retail food consignments until new inspection facilities at Northern Ireland ports have been both completed and audited, whether they will extend full grace periods in all these areas until such changes are implemented by the European Commission.

All current grace periods, including the Scheme for Temporary Agri-food Movements to Northern Ireland (STAMNI) arrangements will continue to be in place until further notice. If operators are not moving goods via STAMNI, they will continue to be subject to full EU checks and controls.