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1245550

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2020
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food: Imports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans the Government has to bring forward legislative proposals to ensure domestic food standards are applied imported products.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	Carla Lockhart
	uin	107134
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2020 answer text <p>The UK Government will not compromise on our standards. Our manifesto is clear that in all of our trade negotiations, we will not compromise on our high environmental protection, animal welfare and food standards. We remain firmly committed to upholding our high environmental protection, food safety and animal welfare standards outside the EU. The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 retains our standards on environmental protections, animal welfare, animal and plant health and food safety at the end of the transition period. This includes existing import requirements and provides a firm basis for maintaining the same high level of protection for both domestic and imported products.</p><p> </p><p>These import standards include a ban on using artificial growth hormones in domestic and imported products and set out that no products, other than potable water, are approved to decontaminate poultry carcasses. Any changes to existing food safety legislation would require new legislation to be brought before this Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 29/10/2020 15:26:29 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
	tabling member	4857 label Biography information for Carla Lockhart

1416026

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2022
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Food: Imports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the recommendation of the Trade and Agriculture Commission, the National Food Strategy and the Climate Change Committee, whether she plans to establish a set of core standards for food imports.
	tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
	tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
	uin	110298
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2022 answer text <p>HM Government is committed to upholding the United Kingdom’s high environmental protection, animal welfare and food standards. We will continue to promote robust food standards nationally and internationally.</p><p> </p><p>The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 retains our standards on environmental protections, animal welfare, animal and plant health and food safety. This maintains the same high level of protection for both domestic and imported products. All food imports must comply with our import requirements.</p><p> </p><p>The United Kingdom already prohibits, for example, the use of artificial growth hormones in both domestic production and imported meat products.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 02/02/2022 15:26:58 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

1684355

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2024
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food: Imports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the potential impact of the Border Target Operating Model on food price inflation in (a) 2024, (b) 2025 and (c) 2026.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	11103
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2024 answer text <p>Initial analysis has indicated that the policies introduced under the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM)would lead to an approximate increase in consumer food price inflation of less than 0.2% over a 3-year period. The cost of BTOM controls is equivalent to 0.4% of the UK’s agri-food Gross Value Added of £127bn in 2021, which serves as a proxy for food prices.</p><p> </p><p>An outbreak of a major disease could have a much more significant impact. The 2001 outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease cost £12.8bn in 2022 prices, £4.8bn of which was cost to Government and £8bn cost to the private sector.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 08/02/2024 17:56:37 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1684356

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2024
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food: Imports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Border Target Operating Model on levels of food supply in (a) 2024, (b) 2025 and (c) 2026.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	11104
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2024 answer text <p>The resilience and reliability of food supply chains is a key objective of the Government as set out in last year’s Government Food Strategy. In implementing this new control regime for the first time on EU imports, we will carefully monitor the range of potential risks, including those that may impact food supply-chains.</p><p> </p><p>We will work with importers to try to manage those risks in a structured way. We recognise that this new model for importing Sanitary and Phytosanitary goods will require some businesses and their supply-chains to adapt their business models. We do not expect food shortages.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 08/02/2024 17:44:06 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1417663

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food: Imports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department will take to ensure equivalence of welfare, environmental and traceability standards in current and future trade deals that are relevant to food and drink imports.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
	tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
	uin	113791
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2022 answer text <p>As set out in our manifesto, we will not compromise on our high environmental, animal welfare and food safety standards in trade negotiations.</p><p> </p><p>All agri-food products imported into the UK under existing or future free trade agreements will, as now, have to comply with our import requirements. A range of Government departments, agencies and bodies continue to ensure that standards are met including the Food Standards Agency, Food Standards Scotland, the Animal and Plant Health Agency, The Veterinary Medicines Directorate and Health and Safety Executive.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, since our exit from the EU we have created new functions to ensure imports meet our high standards. For example, the UK Office for Sanitary and Phytosanitary Trade Assurance has been set up within Defra to coordinate trade assurance in the UK for live animals and animal products. It will ensure trading partners meet the requirement of the UK’s biosecurity and SPS assurance regimes.</p><p> </p><p>Further details on how our trade deals are consistent with the UK’s high environment, animal and plant health and animal welfare standards will be set out in the Government’s report on each trade deal as required under Section 42 of the Agriculture Act 2020. The independent Trade and Agriculture Commission is also established and will provide advice on these areas to further assist Parliamentarians in their scrutiny of future trade deals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 03/02/2022 11:30:57 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
	tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

1330098

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2021
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Food: Imports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect on the environment of food imports resulting from the trade deal between the UK and Australia.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
	uin	11677
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2021 answer text <p>The Government has always been clear that any deals it signs will not threaten the UK’s ability to meet its environmental commitments or its membership of international environmental agreements. The Government is seeking a deal with Australia that will further environmental and climate policy priorities and the UK will not compromise on high environmental protection.</p><p> </p><p>The Government carried out a public consultation and scoping assessment for its free trade agreement negotiation with Australia, which can be found on the Government’s website. This preliminary scoping assessment considered illustrative scenarios. Following the conclusion of negotiations, a full impact assessment will be published prior to implementation.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 10/06/2021 10:36:09 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1178037

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2020
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food: Imports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much (a) chicken meat, (b) beef, (c) pig meat, (d) sheep meat, (e) fresh egg, (f) egg powder, (g) fresh milk and (h) milk powder was imported to the UK from (i) EU27 countries, (ii) the US, (iii) Australia, (iv) New Zealand and (v) the rest of the world in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	1192
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2020 answer text <p>UK overseas trade data is published, free of charge, by HM Revenue &amp; Customs. It includes export and import data relating to the items requested, and is available from this web address: <a href="http://www.uktradeinfo.com/" target="_blank">www.uktradeinfo.com</a>.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis grouped question UIN 1191 question first answered 26/02/2020 16:19:53 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1175913

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2020
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food: Imports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the level of food products imported from countries at risk of climate change.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	12448
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the level of food products that are at risk of climate change and imported from other countries. Climate change occurs on a global scale, and the International Panel on Climate Change has stated that warming greater than the global average is being experienced in many land regions.</p><p> </p><p>The UK imports approximately £50 billion of agri-food products per year. Of this, £35 billion of agri-food imports were from the EU27 in 2018. Defra has also published experimental statistics which estimate imported greenhouse gas emissions compared with emissions from domestic production, but this is not broken down by country or import type.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is clear that more trade should not come at the expense of the environment. We will maintain and enhance our already high environmental standards whilst negotiating future trade agreements.</p> answering member constituency Camborne and Redruth answering member printed George Eustice question first answered 10/02/2020 11:47:53 answering member 3934 label Biography information for George Eustice
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1687400

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2024
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food: Imports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what biosecurity restrictions on imported foodstuffs arriving in sealed refrigerated vehicles (a) were in place prior to and (b) have been in place following the UK's departure from the European Union; and for what reason was the Border Target Operations Model introduced.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest East
	tabling member printed	Sir Julian Lewis
	uin	12880
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2024 answer text <p>When the UK left the European Union, we became responsible for designing and implementing our own border controls. The Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) is key to protecting the UK’s biosecurity and ensuring our trading partners have confidence in our standards. The longer we do not have full visibility and control over sanitary and phytosanitary imports, the greater the risks to our public health, our food and farming industries, and our natural environment. The risks of keeping imports unchecked is massive for the UK economy. For example, an African Swine Fever outbreak such as that on the continent would see stocks of pigs slaughtered and make our pork unexportable to the rest of the world. The BTOM strikes the appropriate balance between protecting the UK’s public health, food supply chains and farming industries and natural environment, and setting a pragmatic, proportionate controls regime.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 14/02/2024 09:56:53 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
	tabling member	54 label Biography information for Sir Julian Lewis

1687401

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2024
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Food: Imports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the location of the new border control post in Sevington on biosecurity risk.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest East
	tabling member printed	Sir Julian Lewis
	uin	12881
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>Until now, goods from the EU enter the UK without certification and checks, apart from those required for the highest-risk live animals and plants. Now that we have moved away from the EU’s rigid biosecurity surveillance and reporting systems, we are responsible for mitigating our own biosecurity risks, which otherwise could devastate UK industries and our ability to export food, as well as posing risks to the environment, public health and the wider economy: by taking a risk-based approach our controls will be focused on consignments proven to cause the most significant biosecurity risk. <br> <br> Defra has worked closely with the relevant designating authority so we are confident that Sevington will have the necessary measures in place to appropriately mitigate biosecurity risks that relate to this facility being located away from the point of entry. The approach to physical checks at inland Border Control Points has already been successfully adopted for plants. Work is also underway with key stakeholders, including the Food Standards Agency, to ensure robust operational procedures for vehicles travelling from port of entry to Sevington. These measures will ensure that biosecurity and food safety are not compromised.</p><p>Where a consignment is called to Sevington inland border facility for a physical inspection, those goods will not be legally cleared for sale or use within the UK until they have attended and been cleared at the Border Control Post (BCP). Where the BCP has concerns, either due to non-attendance or evidence of non-compliance, there are existing provisions, including requiring return or destruction of the goods, or for the goods to be referred for inland controls by the local authority. These are part of the established processes for Border Control facilities like Sevington that sit outside the controlled zone of ports, including those at Liverpool Birkenhead, Newhaven, Portsmouth and Tyne. Other EU ports like Dublin also carry out checks at control posts outside of the port itself. <br> <br> African Swine Fever safeguard checks will be conducted with Border Force at the point of entry. It has never been our intention that these would move to any inland border facility.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 07/03/2024 09:49:42 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
	tabling member	54 label Biography information for Sir Julian Lewis