A Bill to provide for parliamentary approval of trade agreements; to place a duty on the Secretary of State to consider UK agricultural, environmental and animal welfare standards when negotiating trade agreements; to require the Trade and Agriculture Commission to assess the effects of potential trade agreements on farming, the rural environment and animal welfare and to produce associated reports; to require the Secretary of State to lay such reports before Parliament; and for connected purposes.
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The Trade Agreements (Parliamentary Scrutiny and Farming) Bill would require Parliament to approve future UK trade agreements and would obligate the Secretary of State to consider farming, environmental and animal welfare standards when negotiating deals. It also requires the Trade and Agriculture Commission to assess how potential deals could affect farming, the rural environment and animal welfare and to publish those assessments, with the Secretary of State laying the reports before Parliament.
The bill is currently at the 2nd Reading in the House of Commons. If it progresses, it would move to committee stage and subsequent readings; it originated in the Commons and is sponsored by Tim Farron.
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1 Dec 2021
6 May 2022
The 2021-2022 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
