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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 24029, tabled on 29 April 2024

Question

Stella Creasy
Labour
Walthamstow
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff will be assigned to (a) monitor and enforce the restrictions introduced under the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) and (b) carry out the administration of the BTOM, expressed as (i) full-time equivalent numbers and (ii) headcount.

Answer

Sir Mark Spencer
Conservative
Sherwood
Commons

Answered on

14 May 2024

Monitoring and enforcing the border controls introduced under the BTOM is undertaken collaboratively on a site by site basis at each point of entry between Defra, Port Health Authorities (part of local authorities), the Animal and Plant Health Agency, Border Force and HMRC, and the Port Operators.

The department considers that this information is operationally - and in the case of Port Operators commercially - sensitive and should be withheld.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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