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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she will take through the EU SPS agreement on helping to tackle the spread of EU-borne (a) foot and mouth, (b) African swine fever, (c) lumpy skin disease and (d) Peste des Petits Ruminants, into the British mainland and its farms.

The proposed SPS Agreement will support a coordinated UK-EU response to animal disease outbreaks through enhanced cooperation and real-time information sharing. UK access to relevant EU agencies, systems and databases will provide greater transparency of animal movements. The Agreement is intended to strengthen and facilitate a more consistent, timely response to disease outbreaks, while preserving the UK's ability to take appropriate national risk-management and disease-control measures.