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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 6 February 2023 to Question 135431, on Food: Standards, if he will make it his policy to bring forward legislative proposals to create a statutory requirement that food standards will be maintained or enhanced following the passage of the Retained EU Law Bill.

The Government remains committed to promoting robust food standards nationally and internationally, to protect consumer interests, facilitate international trade, and ensure that consumers can have confidence in the food that they buy

The Government is in the process of analysing and assessing retained EU law to determine what should be preserved as part of domestic law, and what should be repealed, or amended. This work will determine how we use the powers in the Re-tained EU Law (REUL) (Revocation and Reform) Bill.