Question follow-through · 117724
Animal Welfare: UK Trade with EU
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what safeguards will be included in the UK-EU sanitary and phytosanitary agreement to ensure the UK maintains the ability to set animal welfare standards unilaterally, for example to b
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 4 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 11 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what safeguards will be included in the UK-EU sanitary and phytosanitary agreement to ensure the UK maintains the ability to set animal welfare standards unilaterally, for example to b
9 Mar 2026
Target answer date
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11 Mar 2026
Answer published
I refer the hon Member to the reply previously given to her on 4 March 2026 to PQ UIN 115407.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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