Question follow-through · 5152
Trade Agreements: Furs
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to ensure any future trade deal does not impact the UK's ban on the fur trade.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 29 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 5 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to ensure any future trade deal does not impact the UK's ban on the fur trade.
2 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jun 2026
Answer published
The UK does not permit fur farming and our trade agreements will always maintain UK levels of statutory protection in relation to human, animal or plant life or health, animal welfare and the environment.Defra is bringing together a working group on fur, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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