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 potential effect on UK agriculture of the UK leaving the EU single market and Customs Union.

Outside the EU we will create new opportunities for our farmers to grow more, sell more and export more great British food. Alongside our plans for a new domestic agricultural policy, the UK has been clear that it is leaving the Single Market and the Customs Union. We have set out two potential options for our customs arrangement; a customs partnership where at the border the UK would mirror the EU’s requirements for imports from the rest of the world, or a highly streamlined arrangement where we would jointly implement a range of measures to minimise frictions together with provisions for Northern Ireland. Both options would leave the UK free to determine its own tariffs.