| Heading: |
Food: UK Trade with EU |
| Question ID: |
1804545 |
| UIN: |
53543 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-20 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4384 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mike Wood
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| Asking Member handle: |
mikejwood
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@mikejwood
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, further to the Prime Minister's post on X dated 19 May 2025, what is the evidential basis for the proposition that the UK-EU Summit - Common Understanding will result in “lower food prices at the checkout” for c |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-28 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4479 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Nick Thomas-Symonds
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| Answering Member handle: |
nicktorfaenmp
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@nicktorfaenmp
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| Answer text: |
The UK-EU SPS Agreement will cut costs, remove red tape and reduce delays at the border for businesses for most agrifood products imported from the EU. Supermarkets have said publicly the SPS Agreement will help to ease the pressure on food prices. |
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| Answering body ID: |
53 |
| Answering body name: |
Cabinet Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |