Beef: Imports

About this written question

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Answering body

Department for Business and Trade

Tabled

12 May 2025

Target answer date

15 May 2025

Answer

16 May 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

1. 12 May 2025

   Question tabled

   To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make it his policy to prohibit the import of hormone-treated beef in trade deals.

2. 15 May 2025

   Target answer date

   Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

3. 16 May 2025

   Answer published

   Our approach to trade deals ensures all agri-food products must comply with our sanitary and phytosanitary standards and wider import requirements to be placed on the UK market. There is no import ban in the UK on dairy products from cows treated with bov...

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.