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Animal Welfare: UK Trade with EU

Asked by Sarah ChampionLabourDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 11 March 2026UIN 117724

The question

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

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

I refer the hon Member to the reply previously given to her on 4 March 2026 to PQ UIN 115407.

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