Question follow-through · 128123
Export Health Certificates
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Export Health Certificates were granted to UK businesses for goods destined for the EU in 2025.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 23 Apr 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many Export Health Certificates were granted to UK businesses for goods destined for the EU in 2025.
21 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Apr 2026
Answer published
The number of Export Health Certificates issued for goods destined to the EU in 2025 is publicly available as open data and can be found at the following link Export Health Certificates. Defra is unable to confirm if the exporters are UK businesses.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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