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Plants: UK Internal Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on how many occasions in the past six months have discussions taken place with the EU Commission on increasing the number of plant species that can be traded between Northern Ireland a

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
23 Apr 2026
Target answer date
28 Apr 2026
Answer
28 Apr 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Apr 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on how many occasions in the past six months have discussions taken place with the EU Commission on increasing the number of plant species that can be traded between Northern Ireland a

  2. 28 Apr 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Apr 2026

    Answer published

    There have been three exchanges of emails with European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in the last six months, regarding UK submissions of additional information for three prohibited high-risk plants: Castanea sativa, Hamamelis mollis and Robinia pseudoacac...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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Written question 29895

15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress has been made in ensuring the smooth flow of trade within the UK internal market since the ending of the Movement Assistance Scheme in June 2025.