Guidance

Port Health Transition Fund determination 2022 to 2023

Updated 28 July 2022

Applies to England

The Minister of State for Rural Affairs, Access to Nature and Biosecurity (“the Minister of State”), in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003, makes the following determination:

Citation

This determination may be cited as the Port Health Transition Fund Grant Determination (2022) [No31/6141].

Purpose of the grant

The purpose of the grant is to provide local authorities in England with the funding they require to deliver new sanitary checks on imports of animal products from territories subject to special transitional import arrangements (EEA states, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Switzerland).

Determination

The Minister of State determines as the authorities to which grant is to be paid and the amount of grant to be paid, the authorities and the amounts set out in Port Health Transition Fund 2022 table of allocations.

Before making this determination in relation to local authorities in England, the Secretary of State obtained the consent of the Treasury.

Signed by authority of the Minister of State for Rural Affairs, Access to Nature and Biosecurity.

Joanne Bradshaw

Director of the Biosecurity, Borders, and Trade Programme

May 2022

Conditions

Formal reporting to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on progress is not a condition of this grant. However, the department is asking local authorities to continue to consider providing voluntary reports at each transition stage, confirming activity that has taken place or been funded, and to continue engaging with Defra on their readiness through established communication means.

Table of allocations

Local authority Grant 2022 to 2023
Ashford Borough Council £1,804,206.00
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council £59,248.00
Bristol Council £86,772.00
City of London £483,500.00
Dover District Council £2,817,887.00
East Suffolk District Council £784,020.00
Hillingdon London Borough £218,330.00
Kingston Upon Hull City Council £483,458.00
Lancaster City Council £37,591.00
Lewes District Council £84,321.00
North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council £30,548.00
North West Leicestershire District Council £35,122.00
Plymouth City Council £49,603.00
Portsmouth City Council £311,107.00
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council £210,799.00
Uttlesford District Council £101,100.00
England Total £7,597,612.00