Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 117724

Animal Welfare: UK Trade with EU

Tabled: 4 March 2026
Answered: 11 March 2026

Question

Sarah Champion

LabourRotherham

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what safeguards will be included in the UK-EU sanitary and phytosanitary agreement to ensure the UK maintains the ability to set animal welfare standards unilaterally, for example to b

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
I refer the hon Member to the reply previously given to her on 4 March 2026 to PQ UIN 115407.