Question follow-through · 49582
Animal Products: Import Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on requiring imports of (a) eggs, (b) pork and (c) fur to meet UK animal welfare standards to be permitte
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 30 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 9 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on requiring imports of (a) eggs, (b) pork and (c) fur to meet UK animal welfare standards to be permitte
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 May 2025
Answer published
Ministers and officials meet regularly to address these important topics. The Government shares the public’s high regard for the UK’s environmental protections, food standards and animal welfare. We will promote robust standards nationally and internation...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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