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Veterinary Services: UK Trade with EU

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that veterinary agreement concluded with the European Union reflects existing animal welfare protections.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 3 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 5 Dec 2024
Answer: 10 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

3 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that veterinary agreement concluded with the European Union reflects existing animal welfare protections.
5 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Dec 2024
Answer published
This Government is committed to resetting relations between the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU). As part of this, the Government is seeking to negotiate a veterinary/ sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement to boost trade and deliver be...

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