Question follow-through · 2900
Foie Gras and Furs: Imports
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her Department's timeline is for banning the import of foie gras and fur into the UK.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 19 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2026
- Answer
- 28 May 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what her Department's timeline is for banning the import of foie gras and fur into the UK.
21 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 May 2026
Answer published
This Government is committed to delivering the most ambitious animal welfare programme in a generation as set out in the Animal Welfare Strategy. The UK does not permit fur farming or the production of foie gras using force feeding, which the Government h...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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