Signal Plant Biosecurity Strategy for Great Britain 2023 to 2028

Summary

The Plant Biosecurity Strategy for Great Britain (2023-2028) is a framework produced jointly by Defra, the Scottish and Welsh Governments and the Forestry Commission. It is tied to the UK Biological Security Strategy, placing plant health within the wider national biosecurity system. The report presents it as a key example of mitigation against plant pest risk. The same list includes the UK Plant Health Risk Register created in 2013 and an international action plan for plant health that monitors non-native pests to strengthen global biosecurity. The report judges that rising trade, shifting consumer demand and changing weather make new non-native pests in the UK quite likely. In its view, preventing pests would raise crop quality and harvest value while supporting food security and biodiversity.