Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has to strengthen animal welfare protection after the UK leaves the EU.

The UK already has some of the highest animal welfare standards in the world and our ambition as we leave the EU is not only to maintain but enhance these standards. We have already set out our plans to introduce mandatory CCTV in slaughterhouses, increase sentences for animal cruelty to five years, ban microbeads which damage marine life, and ban the ivory trade to help bring an end to elephant poaching.