Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 12724

Food: Production

Tabled: 5 November 2024
Answered: 11 November 2024

Question

Gareth Snell

Labour (Co-op)Stoke-on-Trent Central

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making an assessment of (a) core food and drink production standards, (b) environmental sustainability and (c) animal welfare standard before co

Answer

Mr Douglas Alexander
The Government is firmly committed to upholding our high environmental protection, animal welfare and food safety standards, areas in which the UK is a world leader. We assess environmental and food production impacts in our published FTA scoping assessme...

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