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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2022-03-24more like thismore than 2022-03-24
answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs more like this
answering dept id 13 more like this
answering dept short name Environment, Food and Rural Affairs more like this
answering dept sort name Environment, Food and Rural Affairs more like this
hansard heading Veterinary Medicine: Northern Ireland remove filter
house id 2 more like this
legislature
25277
pref label House of Lords more like this
question text To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord Benyon on 23 March (HL Deb col 954), what discussions they had with the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs minister in the Northern Ireland Executive about his embargo on the recruitment of veterinarians to deliver controls on (1) sanitary, and (2) phytosanitary, goods arriving at Northern Ireland ports; and what assessment they have made of this decision. more like this
tabling member printed
Lord Rogan more like this
uin HL7341 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2022-04-07more like thismore than 2022-04-07
answer text <p>The operation of checks is a matter for the Northern Ireland Executive (as sanitary and phytosanitary checks are a devolved competence). Defra Ministers have written and spoken to Minister Poots about staffing and infrastructure for conducting checks at Northern Ireland points of entry. Defra officials talk regularly to their DAERA counterparts about implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol including operations at points of entry.</p><p> </p><p>We remain fully committed to fixing the problems with the Protocol and to protect the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement in all its dimensions. We will continue our intensive talks with the EU in order to resolve these.</p> more like this
answering member printed Lord Benyon more like this
question first answered
less than 2022-04-07T10:41:16.007Zmore like thismore than 2022-04-07T10:41:16.007Z
answering member
1547
label Biography information for Lord Benyon more like this
tabling member
2478
label Biography information for Lord Rogan more like this