Question follow-through · 52322
UK Trade with EU: Import Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the UK/EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary agreement to improve the ability of businesses to trade in EU countries.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 14 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 May 2025
- Answer
- 27 May 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the UK/EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary agreement to improve the ability of businesses to trade in EU countries.
16 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 May 2025
Answer published
The Prime Minister welcomed President of the European Commission Ursula Von Der Leyen and President of the EU Council António Costa to London for a UK-EU Summit on 19 May. At that Summit we agreed the parameters for a Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Agre...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Plants: Disease Control
15 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his EU counterparts on an agreement on (a) sanitary and phytosanitary measures (b) plant health.
Import Controls: Disease Control
16 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing inspectors to carry out sanitary and phytosanitary checks at border control points after 5pm.
Pigs: Animal Welfare
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 23 September2025 to Question 75189 on Pigs: Animal Welfare, how many complaints of illegal slaughter on pig farms the Animal and Planet Health Agency has rece
Pigs: Animal Welfare
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 23 September 2025 to Question 75189 on Pigs: Animal Welfare, how many prosecutions for illegal pig thumping brought by local authorities are being supported b
Fly-tipping
19 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has received any representations from (a) farmers, (b) other rural landowners and (c) other interested parties calling for a single responsible body to receive and investiga
Fly-tipping
2 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November to Question 92922 on Fly-tipping, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of a single responsible body to receive and investiga
Fly-tipping: Public Bodies
14 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of a single responsible body to receive and investigate incidents of fly-tipping.
Biodiversity: Property Development
12 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on what date she plans to lay regulations to introduce the Biodiversity Net Gain exemption for small scale self-build and custom build developments.
Water Supply: Hertfordshire
23 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has had discussions with Affinity Water on the reduction of water pressure to residents of Park Street village, Hertfordshire.
Rivers: Sewage
29 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing the measures in the Chalk Streams (Sewerage Investment) Bill.
Water Supply: Waste
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made any assessment of the adequacy of push-fit MDPE water supply piping standards in preventing water leaks in the public water supply network.
Deposit Return Schemes: Finance
9 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Deposit Return Scheme, whether (a) local authorities and (b) Material Recovery Facilities operators will receive producer funding for (i) collecting, (ii) sorting