Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the White Paper, The future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union, published in July 2018, whether he has plans to replicate the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 in the common rulebook.

The content of the common rule book will form part of ongoing discussions between Her Majesty’s Government and the T50 taskforce, to ensure that the content of the common rule book account for a robust and safe food system between the United Kingdom and European Union. The rule book will only include those rules necessary to provide for frictionless trade at the border. The specific regulations which are considered for the rulebook will form a part of these ongoing discussions.