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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when his Department expects to publish its response to its consultation on extending the remit of the Groceries Code Adjudicator which closed in January 2017.

We are working closely with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on our response to the Call for Evidence on the remit of the Groceries Code Adjudicator. This will be published in due course.