Question follow-through · 84666
Genetically Modified Organisms: UK Trade with EU
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the UK–EU reset agreement on the (a) use and (b) sale of precision-bred (i) plants and (ii) animals.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 23 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 13 Nov 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the UK–EU reset agreement on the (a) use and (b) sale of precision-bred (i) plants and (ii) animals.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Nov 2025
Answer published
We remain committed to moving forward with the Precision Breeding Act. The EU has accepted there will need to be a number of areas where we need to retain our own rules. The details of these are now subject to negotiation, but we have been clear about the...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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