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Animal Welfare: Exports

Commons · Question 77128 · Tabled 15 Sep 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 15 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Ruth Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will request that the UK is able to diverge from the EU in relation to animal welfare standards in the dynamic alignment requirement of the EU-UK Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agre

Answer

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 15 Oct 2025

The agreement will cover SPS standards and controls and also wider agrifood rules related to food labelling, organics, and key marketing standards and compositional standards. The EU has accepted there will need to be a number of areas where we need to re...