Mark Spencer corrected a written answer on Import Controls: Disease Control
Stella Creasy (Labour, Walthamstow) asked written question 13303 on 6 February 2024. Mark Spencer answered on 12 March 2024 for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Mark Spencer corrected the answer on 19 March 2024. The same corrected answer was given to questions 13305, 13319. The corrected text no longer gives the figures £10, £20, £25, £250, £5, £750. Altogether 155 words differ between the two versions.
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the introduction of the Border Target Operating Model, what estimate his Department has made of the cost per consignment of acquiring health certificates for sanitary and phyto-sanitary controls.
Original and corrected answer
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| We will publish the Economic Impact Assessment of the legislative measures required to enable the Border Target Operating Model Under the new BTOM, consignments can undergo various types of checks depending on the type of product and the level of risk presented. Low risk consignments will not undergo documentary, ID or physical checks. All medium risk products of animal origin (POAO) will undergo documentary checks with an estimated cost to business of £10-£25 per check. 1% of medium risk consignments of POAO will undergo physical and ID checks, with an estimated cost to business of £250-£750 per check. The check rates on high risk consignments of POAO are unchanged. For plant and plant products, the cost of documentary checks is expected to be around £5 per check for high and medium risk goods and the cost of risk-based inspections is expected to be £20-£80 per check. Low risk plant and plant products are not charged for checks. Plans to amend fees for documentary checks will occur under future SIs for the BTOM. | We will publish the Economic Impact Assessment of the legislative measures required to enable the Border Target Operating Model in due course and no later than the Statutory Instruments are laid. This will contain summary data tables and they will include the requested information. |
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| Date read | 15 October 2026 |
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