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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of shortages of non-UK EU workers on the Jersey Royal potato crop yield.

The Bailiwick of Jersey is a Crown Dependency and is an autonomous, self-governing jurisdiction with its own legislature, administrative, fiscal and legal systems and its own courts of law.

Topics relating to agriculture and immigration in Jersey are therefore a matter for the Government of Jersey. Jersey is part of the Common Travel Area. There is a high level of cooperation between Jersey and the UK on immigration matters.