Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 77128

Animal Welfare: Exports

Tabled: 15 September 2025

Answered: 15 October 2025

Question

Ruth Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will request that the UK is able to diverge from the EU in relation to animal welfare standards in the dynamic alignment requirement of the EU-UK Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agre

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

The agreement will cover SPS standards and controls and also wider agrifood rules related to food labelling, organics, and key marketing standards and compositional standards. The EU has accepted there will need to be a number of areas where we need to re...

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