Peter Foster Author Rss https://faqinsurances.com/author/peter-foster/ Peter Foster Author Rss - Faqs of Insurances Tue, 11 Oct 2022 19:02:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://faqinsurances.com https://faqinsurances.com/public/skin/logo.png Peter Foster Author Rss https://faqinsurances.com/author/peter-foster/ 144 144 <![CDATA[Public accounts committee warns that consumers and companies face ‘greater risks and costs’ ]]> https://faqinsurances.com/2022/10/11/public-accounts-committee-warns-that-consumers-and-companies-face-greater-risks-and-costs/ Tue, 11 Oct 2022 19:02:28 +0000 https://faqinsurances.com/2022/10/11/public-accounts-committee-warns-that-consumers-and-companies-face-greater-risks-and-costs/ Three major UK safety and competition regulators are struggling to adapt to expanded roles after Brexit, leaving businesses and consumers facing increased safety risks and higher costs, an influential group of MPs has warned.

Recruitment difficulties, a shortage of expertise and exclusion from valuable EU information-sharing networks had all contributed to the challenge, according to a report published on Wednesday by the House of Commons public accounts committee.

The Competition and Markets Authority, the Food Standards Agency and the Health and Safety Executive also warned that looming civil service budget cuts, if enacted, would impede their ability to adapt to a post-Brexit regulatory environment that has yet to be defined.

This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:Peter Foster

]]> <![CDATA[Lobby groups tell Kemi Badenoch minimum food, green and animal welfare standards needed in future post-Brexit deals ]]> https://faqinsurances.com/2022/10/02/lobby-groups-tell-kemi-badenoch-minimum-food-green-and-animal-welfare-standards-needed-in-future-post-brexit-deals/ Sun, 02 Oct 2022 08:36:18 +0000 https://faqinsurances.com/2022/10/02/lobby-groups-tell-kemi-badenoch-minimum-food-green-and-animal-welfare-standards-needed-in-future-post-brexit-deals/ Farming and environmental groups are demanding guarantees from the UK government that it will maintain a “level playing field” for food and animal welfare standards in future post-Brexit trade deals.

A broad coalition of more than 10 lobby groups have called for Prime Minister Liz Truss’s new government to avoid a repeat of recent trade deals with Australia and New Zealand, which they said could undercut UK farmers and put consumers at risk.

In a letter sent to international trade secretary Kemi Badenoch ahead of the Conservative party conference that starts in Birmingham on Sunday, they warned that the Australian deal left British farmers competing with imported food “produced to standards that would be illegal in the UK”. 

This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:Peter Foster

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