Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 13 November 2025.
Callum Anderson
Labour, Buckingham and Bletchley
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how she plans to assess progress towards establishing the proposed UK–EU Sanitary and Phytosanitary zone under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
Angela Eagle
The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This autumn we expect to start the detailed negotiations on the SPS agreement, as well as the other commitments from our summit in May
Defra has established a programme to deliver the work required to implement a UK-EU SPS agreement. This is already part of the Government Major Projects Portfolio, with regular progress reporting into the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority.
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