Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 88523

Agricultural Products: UK Trade with EU

Tabled: 5 November 2025

Answered: 17 November 2025

Question

David Chadwick

Liberal Democrat — Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether negotiations on a Common Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Area with the EU has begun.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

The UK is ready to move forward quickly to implement the outcomes agreed at the UK-EU summit. We are already in discussions in some areas – Security Action for Europe (SAFE), Erasmus, Electricity linking - and in others (Sanitary and Phytosanitary / Emiss...

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