Oral Answers to Questions

Marion Fellows Excerpts

Wednesday 16th June 2021 Commons Chamber

[The Prime Minister]

I will do everything I can to ensure that we accelerate that process. My hon. Friend is right to raise it. A great deal of progress has already been made and the Food Standards Agency has been flexible, but we need to go further. We will make sure that great British shellfish can continue to be exported to Europe and around the world.

[Marion Fellows (Motherwell and Wishaw) (SNP)]

  The UK Government’s trade deal with Australia has been made with no consultation, no consent and no parliamentary scrutiny. The president of the National Farmers Union Scotland said:“Our seafood industry has already been hit hard by Brexit and now Scottish farming is next to be sacrificed – and once again it’s Scotland’s key industries which will bear the brunt of a Tory Brexit people here did not vote for”. Does the Prime Minister accept the concerns of the NFU Scotland president, or does he think he knows better?