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 ban with immediate effect the import of Brazilian beef.

Sanitary and phytosanitary trade restrictions must be evidenced-based and proportionate in line with World Trade Organization rules.

Defra is assessing Brazilian production systems in place to ensure that beef from animals treated with certain antimicrobial products is not exported to Great Britain, as a priority.