Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 86959

Animal Welfare: UK Trade with EU

Tabled: 30 October 2025

Answered: 5 November 2025

Question

Adrian Ramsay

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department plans to take to maintain animal welfare standards in the context of negotiations with the EU on a sanitary and phytosanitary agreement.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

The EU has accepted there will need to be a number of areas where we need to retain our own rules. It is too soon to discuss the details of the SPS agreement, which is subject to negotiation. We have been clear with the EU about the importance of establis...

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