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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the impact on the environment of the (a) production and (b) sale of beef resulting from the Australia-UK free trade agreement.

The Impact Assessment of the UK-Australia Free Trade Argument included an assessment of the potential environmental impact of the agreement. The Impact Assessment is available at gov.uk.

We continue to uphold our high environmental standards in our Free Trade Agreements and we are proud of the ambitious environment chapter agreed between the UK and Australia which affirms our shared commitment to the Paris Agreement and to strengthen cooperation on a range of environmental issues.