Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether her Department has considered introducing a fixed maximum fee for Animal Health Certificates, in the way that fees for other mandatory government documents such as passports are regulated.

All fees set by veterinary surgeons or veterinary practices are a private matter between individual practices and their clients and neither the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS), the UK regulator of the veterinary profession, nor Defra intervene in the level of fees that are charged.