Question follow-through · 41585
Food: Imports
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of standards of food and drink imports.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 2 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of standards of food and drink imports.
28 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Apr 2025
Answer published
The UK maintains high standards on food that is offered to consumers. For example, all food sold in the UK must comply with food compositional standards and labelling legislation whether it is produced domestically or imported into the UK. These rules pro...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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