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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what consultation is planned to engage businesses and other stakeholders on the development of proposals for a new environmental enforcement agency to ensure good governance after the UK leaves the EU.

The Secretary of State has set out plans to consult shortly on a new, independent and statutory body to hold Government, and potentially public authorities, to account on environmental commitments once we have left the EU. We are also proposing to consult on the creation of a new policy statement on environmental principles to apply when we leave the EU.