Question follow-through · 109910
Animal Products: Import Controls
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to introduce animal welfare standards for imports to ensure that products produced in ways that are illegal in the UK cannot enter the UK market.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 30 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to introduce animal welfare standards for imports to ensure that products produced in ways that are illegal in the UK cannot enter the UK market.
3 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Feb 2026
Answer published
All agri-food products must comply with our import requirements in order to be placed on the UK market. This includes ensuring imported meat products have been slaughtered to animal welfare standards equivalent to our domestic standards. The Government sh...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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