Question follow-through · 76038
Meat: Imports
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps she has taken to ensure that imported meat products are slaughtered to animal welfare standards equivalent to those in the UK.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 8 Oct 2025 · 29 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps she has taken to ensure that imported meat products are slaughtered to animal welfare standards equivalent to those in the UK.
11 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Government encourages the highest standards of animal welfare at slaughter. Under existing legislation, imports of meat must meet standards at least equivalent to welfare at slaughter requirements set out in assimilated Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009 on...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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