Question follow-through · 15408
Pigmeat: Imports
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to require imported pork to meet the UK's animal welfare standards.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 20 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 4 Dec 2024 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to require imported pork to meet the UK's animal welfare standards.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Government shares the public’s high regard for the UK’s environmental protections, food standards and animal welfare and recognises farmers’ concerns about imports produced using methods not permitted in the UK. We have been clear that we will use our...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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