Question follow-through · 20696
Trade Agreements: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to include core standards for animal welfare within his planned trade strategy.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 20 Dec 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to include core standards for animal welfare within his planned trade strategy.
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Dec 2024
Answer published
We are currently developing the trade strategy, closely engaging with stakeholders as we refine its content. The trade strategy will set out how we can achieve long-term sustainable, inclusive, and resilient growth through trade. The development of the tr...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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