To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate he has made of the Government's expenditure on preparations for implementing proposed sanitary and phytosanitary checks on food imports from the EU as of 10 May 2022.
Answered on
16 May 2022
This answer is a correction from the original answer.
Over the last two years Defra has worked with stakeholders and delivery partners to develop the capability to deliver new SPS border controls on goods arriving in England from the EU. The figures below cover IT delivery, staffing costs and infrastructure.
PQ 275/276 | Implementation Preparations | |||
Activity | 21/22 | 22/23 | Total | |
Digital Delivery | £10.77m | £0.00m | £10.77m | Includes IPAFFS and proportion of overheads |
Imports Policy | £11.17m | £0.15m | £11.32m | Includes Plants and Animals |
PHA Fund | £17.56m | £2.50m | £20.06m | |
£39.50m | £2.65m | £42.15m | Includes funds for PHA staff to end of April 2022 | |
PQ277/783 | BCP Spend to date | |||
Activity | 21/22 | 22/23 | Total | |
Infrastructure | £30.98m | £0.37m | £31.35m | Includes Sevington and Dover construction only, which are DEFRA funded. |
Original answer
Over the last two years Defra has worked with stakeholders and delivery partners to develop the capability to deliver new SPS border controls on goods arriving in England from the EU. The figures below cover IT delivery, staffing costs and infrastructure.
PQ 275 / 276 | Implementation Preparations | |||
Activity | 21/22 | 22/23 | Total | |
Digital Delivery | £10.77m | £0.00m | £10.77m | Includes IPAFFS and proportion of overheads |
Imports Policy | £11.17m | £0.15m | £11.32m | Includes Plants and Animals |
PHA Fund | £17.56m | £2.50m | £20.06m | |
£39.50m | £2.65m | £42.15m | Includes funds for PHA staff to end of April 2022 | |
PQ 277/783 | BCP Spend to date | |||
Activity | 21/22 | 22/23 | Total | |
Infrastructure | £30.98m | £0.37m | £31.35m | Includes Sevington and Dover construction only, which are DEFRA funded. |