Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 76038

Meat: Imports

Tabled: 9 September 2025

Answered: 8 October 2025

Question

Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps she has taken to ensure that imported meat products are slaughtered to animal welfare standards equivalent to those in the UK.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

The Government encourages the highest standards of animal welfare at slaughter. Under existing legislation, imports of meat must meet standards at least equivalent to welfare at slaughter requirements set out in assimilated Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009 on...

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