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Sheep Meat: Exports

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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 59639, tabled on 11 January 2017

Question

Mr Mark Williams
Liberal Democrat
Ceredigion
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to her Department's press release, Lamb exports to America closer, published on 27 July 2016, what information she holds on when the first Welsh lamb exports to the US are expected to take place.

Answer

George Eustice
Conservative
Camborne and Redruth
Commons

Answered on

16 January 2017

The US authorities are conducting the necessary steps to formally lift their restrictions on exports of EU lamb to the US. Defra is working with the US authorities to ensure exports of lamb from the UK can commence as quickly as possible once the restrictions have been lifted.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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