Guidance

Port Health Transition Fund determination 2021 to 2022

Updated 28 July 2022

Applies to England

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The Minister of State for Rural Affairs, Access to Nature and Biosecurity (鈥渢he Minister of State鈥�), in exercise of the powers conferred by section 31 of the , makes the following determination:

Citation

This determination may be cited as the Port Health Transition Fund Determination (2021) [No31/5827].

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) that will now be introduced from July 2022. The funding covers three types of costs that will be incurred by local authorities in the 2021 to 2022 financial year:

  • Salary costs of recruited staff, to enable authorities to retain them in post
  • Recruitment and salary costs for new staff where required and agreed
  • Certain non-staff costs relating to accommodation, equipment, systems etc.

Further information on the staged introduction of checks on EU imports is contained in The Border Operating Model.

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 2021 table of allocations (below).

This will be paid to local authorities in the form of single non-ring-fenced grants in December 2021. Funding allocations for local authorities reflect the declared requirements of the local authorities via a formal bidding process. These requirements have been reviewed and tested against the modelled annualised consignments.

Before making this determination in relation to local authorities in England, the Secretary of State obtained the consent of the Treasury to allocate and distribute 拢17.5 million.

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

December 2021

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 2021 to 2022
Ashford Borough Council 拢2,131,184.00
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council 拢123,515.00
Bristol Council 拢293,516.00
City of London 拢1,696,000.00
Dover District Council 拢7,692,480.00
East Suffolk District Council 拢1,639,934.00
Hillingdon London Borough 拢786,313.00
Kingston Upon Hull City Council 拢9,126.00
Lancaster City Council 拢126,189.00
Lewes District Council 拢292,792.00
Liverpool City Council 拢416,156.00
Manchester City Council 拢23,350.00
North East Lincolnshire Council 拢637,669.00
North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council 拢85,572.00
North West Leicestershire District Council 拢53,120.00
Plymouth City Council 拢175,385.00
Portsmouth City Council 拢1,040,369.00
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council 拢200,228.00
Uttlesford District Council 拢105,690.00
England Total 拢17,528,588.00
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