Question follow-through · 36888
UK Trade with EU: Flowers
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his EU counterparts on streamlining the import process for flowers.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 20 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his EU counterparts on streamlining the import process for flowers.
12 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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20 Mar 2025
Answer published
Plant health import requirements are kept under continuous review, through the UK Plant Health Risk Group. Following such a review, most imports of cut flowers into GB from the EU no longer require an accompanying phytosanitary certificate and notificatio...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Flowers
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of UK–EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary trade negotiations on the cut flower and plant sector; and when small flower-selling businesses