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

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they spent in the 2016–17 financial year on biosecurity measures relating to tree diseases and pests, broken down by (1) policy functions, (2) inspectorate functions, (3) technical support functions, for example, risk assessments and diagnostics, (4) response functions, including control activities, and (5) research.

Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) spent £13.2m on plant and tree diseases in 2016/17 including both direct costs and apportioned support staff and overheads.

APHA do not keep the split as requested but can further subdivide the cost between direct costs (£10.1m) and apportioned support staff and overheads (£3.1m).