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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to amend regulations to require labelling of food where salt has been added to fresh fish by either brining or any other deliberate salting process from 2021.

Such labelling is already required under Annex VI (1) of the Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers.

The annex requires that in all cases where omission of such information could mislead the purchaser, the name of a food shall include, or be accompanied by, particulars as to the physical condition of the food or the specific treatment which it has undergone.

This requirement will continue to apply when the Transition Period ends, at which point the Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 will be retained in UK law.