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Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 51970, tabled on 13 May 2025

Question

Dr Neil Hudson
Conservative
Epping Forest
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to include a ban on the importation of product where antibiotics have been used as growth promoters in all future international trade deals.

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
Labour
Cambridge
Commons

Answered on

19 May 2025

We have been clear that we will only ever sign trade agreements which align with the UK’s national interests, and we will always uphold our high food standards.

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