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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he has taken to develop an independent fisheries policy when the UK leaves the EU.

The Government has announced plans for a Fisheries Bill in this session, which, combined with our withdrawal from the London Fisheries Convention, will allow us to develop a new UK fishing policy as we leave the EU. This will mean that the UK can control access to, and set quotas for, fish caught in our Exclusive Economic Zone. Defra is currently developing the Fisheries Bill as outlined in the Queen’s Speech.