Question follow-through · 43346
Meat Products: Imports
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that farmers are not undercut by imports from countries with lower animal welfare standards.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 1 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that farmers are not undercut by imports from countries with lower animal welfare standards.
3 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Government shares the public’s high regard for the UK’s environmental protections, food standards and animal welfare. This Government will uphold and protect our high environmental and animal welfare standards in future trade deals. We will promote ro...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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